Mass mortality of Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis (Echinodermata: Echinoidea) off Nova Scotia, Canada

Robert Eric Scheibling1, Robert L. Stephenson1
1Biology Dept, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada

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