Fig. 1

Survival of Uca vocator larvae (%, average ± standard deviation) from hatching to megalopa and for each zoeal stage (ZI–ZV) reared in seven different salinity treatments. % values of the ZI stage refer to initial n = 60 larvae equally distributed in three replicate vials per treatment, while for ZII–ZV stages values are related to initial n of each surviving zoea that moulted to the subsequent larval stage. Equal letters above bars indicate statistically homogeneous groups (P > 0.05)