TY - JOUR
AU - Baltazar, Mario
AB -  and Remnants of a previously widespread population of the heavily overfished Chil- ean squat lobster Pleuroncodes monodon (H. Milne Edwards, 1837) are now found on the continental shelf off Concepcion Bay, cen- tral Chile, in the southern border of the preexploitation distribution (Bahamonde et al., 1986; Roa and Bahamonde, 1994). De- spite this, it is the most representative spe- cies of the soft-bottom megabenthic com- munity of the area. During the spring and summer this area is affected by seasonal up- welling processes, typical of midlatitude Eastern Ocean Boundary Current systems, and by variable oxygen minima of the Peru- Chile Undercurrent (Ahumada, 1989; Sum- merhayes et al., 1992). Muddy bottoms of the shelf are rich in organic matter and in summer are charac- terized by well-developed bacterial mats dominated by giant sliding filamentous sul- fur bacteria (Thioploca spp.; Gallardo, 1977; Arntz et al., 1991 ). These prokaryotes thrive where there is low oxygen and high H2S and where potential grazers are few (Cohen et al., 1984). These and previous incidental observations on the benthos of the same general area concerning the occurrence of small individuals of P. monodon (see Gal- lardo et al., 1993) lead us to suggest 
TI - RECRUITMENT OF THE SQUAT LOBSTER PLEURONCODES MONODON ON THE CONTINENTAL SHELF OFF CENTRAL CHILE
JF - Journal of Crustacean Biology
DO - 10.1163/193724094X00632
DA - 1994-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/brill/recruitment-of-the-squat-lobster-pleuroncodes-monodon-on-the-NtJJ0XAVRO
SP - 665
EP - 669
VL - 14
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -