Growth of the Red Sea Urchin Strongylocentrotus Franciscanus (Agassiz) in Two Natural Habitats |
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abalone abundance amount of drift animals annual mean aquaria Bay and Point Bay jetty station biomass/day Boolootian Brody-von Bertalanffy growth cages Calif California chamber DFFA differences drift algae dull tubercules Ebert Echinodermata echinoderms effects of spine energy environmental feeding rate food availability franciscanus g urchin g wet weight/hr gamete Giese gonad indices growth curves growth rates habitats kelp kelp beds laboratory large numbers largest mode Loma and Mission LOMA MISSION BAY Macrocystis marked urchins Mission Bay jetty Mission Bay station mortality nearest 1g north Mission Bay nutritional obtained parameters Pelagophycus Point Loma area Point Loma ledge POINT LOMA MISSION Point Loma population Point Loma station predators quadrats recapture data RED SEA URCHIN respiration rate sampling San Diego sea otter sea urchin Strongylocentrotus size frequency distributions size-age spine loss Strongylocentrotus purpuratus Strongylocentrotus purpuratus Stimpson study areas Swan tank thermocline Thomas Ebert urchin population utilized water temperature wave surge