caa a22 4500 469030046 CHVBK 20180323132741.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e19920801xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00418009 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00418009 Effects of an oil spill on emergence and mortality in fiddler crabs Uca pugnax [Elektronische Daten] [Joanna Burger, John Brzorad, Michael Gochfeld] Following a spill of 567 000 gallons of No. 2 fuel oil into the Arthur Kill in New York and New Jersey in January 1990 we studied the emergence and mortality of fiddler crabs. We (1) compared seven salt marsh creeks immediately adjacent to the oil spill with 23 creeks at varying distances from the spill; (2) examined the temporal pattern of emergence in one creek; and (3) compared mortality rate of crabs that emerged with those we dug up. Twice as many crabs emerged in the adjacent creeks compared to those that were only 4.5km away. There were significant differences in the number of crabs that emerged as a function of distance from the spill. Crabs continued to emerge until mid-March. For all the emerged crabs, the percentage of females ranged from 28 to 80, whereas the percentage of females in intact burrows was 64-65%. For all emerged samples, females died earlier than males. In the laboratory, all emerged crabs died within four weeks whereas over 90% of the controls were still alive eight weeks after the initiation of the experiment. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992 Burger Joanna Department of Biological Sciences and Graduate Program in Ecology, Rutgers University, 08855, Piscataway, New Jersey, U.S.A. aut Brzorad John Department of Biological Sciences and Graduate Program in Ecology, Rutgers University, 08855, Piscataway, New Jersey, U.S.A. aut Gochfeld Michael Environmental and Community Medicine, UMDNJ-RWJ Medical School, 08854, Piscataway, New Jersey, U.S.A. aut Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Kluwer Academic Publishers 22/2(1992-08-01), 107-115 0167-6369 22:2<107 1992 22 10661 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00418009 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00418009 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Burger Joanna Department of Biological Sciences and Graduate Program in Ecology, Rutgers University, 08855, Piscataway, New Jersey, U.S.A aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Brzorad John Department of Biological Sciences and Graduate Program in Ecology, Rutgers University, 08855, Piscataway, New Jersey, U.S.A aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Gochfeld Michael Environmental and Community Medicine, UMDNJ-RWJ Medical School, 08854, Piscataway, New Jersey, U.S.A aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Kluwer Academic Publishers 22/2(1992-08-01), 107-115 0167-6369 22:2<107 1992 22 10661 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer