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Postlarval or Megalopal Stage Blue Crab


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    Current Publications and Theses

    1. Johnson, E. and D. Eggleston. Population demographics and movement of blue crabs in sat marsh creeks. Marine Ecology Progress Series (in press).
    2. Eggleston, D. B., G. W. Bell, A. Amavisca. 2005. Interactive effects of episodic hypoxia and cannibalism on juvenile blue crab mortality. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology (in press).
    3. Bell, G. W. and D. B. Eggleston. 2005. Species-specific avoidance responses to the chronic and episodic hypoxia. Marine Biology 146: 761-770.
    4. Forward, R. B. Jr., N. B. Reyns, H. Diaz, J. H. Cohen, D. B. Eggleston. 2005. Endogenous swimming rhythms underlying secondary dispersal of early juvenile blue crabs Callinectes sapidus. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 316: 91-100.
    5. Burkholder, J, D. Eggleston, H. Glasgow, C. Brownie, R. Reed, G. Melia, C. Kinder, G. Janowitz, R. Corbett, M. Posey, T. Alphin, D. Toms, N. Deamer. (2004). Comparative impacts of major hurricanes on the Neuse River and Western Pamlico Sound ecosystems. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 101:9291-9296.
    6. Forward, R. B. Jr., N.B. Reyns, H. Diaz., J. H. Cohen and D. B. Eggleston. (2004). Endogenous swimming rhythms of juvenile blue crabs, Callinectes sapidus as related to horizontal transport. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 299:63-76.
    7. Reyns, N. B. and D. B. Eggleston. (2004) Environmentally-controlled, density-dependent secondary dispersal in a local estuarine crab population. Oecologia 140:280-288.
    8. Bell G. W., D. B. Eggleston and T. G. Wolcott. (2003). Behavioral responses of free-ranging blue crabs to episodic hypoxia. I. Movement. Marine Ecology Progress Series 259:215-225.
    9. Bell G. W., D. B. Eggleston and T. G. Wolcott. (2003.) Behavioral responses of free-ranging blue crabs to episodic hypoxia. II. Feeding. Marine Ecology Progress Series 259:227-235.
    10. Chaves, J. C. and D. B. Eggleston. (2003). Blue crab mortality in North Carolina’s soft-shell industry: biological and operational considerations. Journal of Shellfisheries Research 22:241-249.
    11. Etherington, L. and D. Eggleston. (2003). Spatial dynamics of large-scale, multi-stage crab dispersal: determinants and consequences for recruitment. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 60:873-887.
    12. Etherington, L. L., D. B. Eggleston, and W. Stockhausen (2003). Partitioning loss rates of early juvenile blue crabs from seagrass habitats into mortality and emigration. Bulletin of Marine Science 72(2):371-392.
      68. Eggleston, D. B. (2003). Introduction to the Proceedings of the Blue Crab Symposium. Bulletin of Marine Science 72(2):261-263.
    13. Seitz, R. D., R. N. Lipcius, A. H. Hines and D. B. Eggleston. (2001). Density-dependent predation, habitat variation, and the persistence of marine bivalve prey. Ecology 82:2435-2451.
    14. Blackmon, D. C. and D. B. Eggleston. (2001). Factors influencing planktonic, post-settlement dispersal of early juvenile blue crabs. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 257:183-203.
    15. Eggleston, D. B. (2000). Hurricanes, high school students, and the blue crab. Pages 43-50 In D. Haase and B. Wojenowski (eds.), Proceedings of the Conference on K-12 Outreach from University Science Departments, The Science House, NC State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-8211.
    16. Etherington, L. L. and D. B. Eggleston. (2000). Large-scale blue crab recruitment: linking postlarval transport, post-settlement planktonic dispersal, and multiple nursery habitats. Marine Ecology Progress Series 204:179-198.
    17. Taylor, D. L. and D. B. Eggleston. (2000). Effects of hypoxia on an estuarine predator-prey interaction: foraging behavior and mutual interference in the blue crab Callinectes sapidus and the infaunal clam prey Mya arenaria. Marine Ecology Progress Series 196:221-237.
    18. Xie, L. and D. B. Eggleston. (1999). Computer simulations of wind-induced estuarine circulation patterns and estuary-shelf exchange processes: the potential role of wind forcing on larval transport. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 49:221-234.
    19. Eggleston, D. B., W. E. Elis, L. L. Etherington, C. P. Dahlgren, M. H. Posey. (1999). Organism response to habitat patchiness and diversity: habitat colonization by estuarine macrofauna. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 236:107-132.
    20. Eggleston, D., L. Etherington, W. Elis. (1997). Organism response to habitat patchiness: species- and habitat-dependent recruitment of decapod crustaceans. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 223:111-132.