The dataset includes abundance, size, fatty acid composition, intermolt stage, and metamorphosis times of Dungeness crab megalopae in Coos Bay, OR, USA during the settlement seasons 2017-2019. The data has been used in the article "Ocean conditions influence the quality of recruiting benthic marine invertebrate larvae – insights from fatty acids" published in Limnology and Oceanography (online ISSN: 1939-5590, print ISSN: 0024-3590). See the attached documentation and the original research article for more information on the data collection.

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