Higher water temperature leads to precocious maturation of western rock lobsters (Panulirus cygnus), but are things that simple?

Higher water temperature leads to precocious maturation of western rock lobsters (Panulirus cygnus), but are things that simple?

During a rock lobster post-puerulus grow out project, western rock lobsters from three different cohorts (post-puerulus, year-1 and year-2) were held for 12 months under two temperature regimes (ambient and 23oC) and two feed delivery treatments (the same ration of pelleted diet fed once nightly and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Melville-Smith, Roy, de Lestang, S., Johnston, D.J.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Marine Biological Association of India 2010
Subjects:
aquaculture
life history
Bergmann's rule
Maturity
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/23006

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