Recruitment patterns and factors affecting recruitment of five species of short-lived clupeoids in the tropical South Pacific

Fisheries Research

Volumn 26, Issue 3-4, 1996, Pages 239-255

  Milton, David A ^a   Rawlinson, Nicholas J F ^a   Blaber, Stephen J M ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Egg predation; Recruitment; Stock recruitment relationships; Tropical clupeoids

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; PATTERNS; RECRUITMENT; SHORT-LIVED SPECIES;

PACIFIC, (TROPICAL);

ENCRASICHOLINA; SPRATELLOIDES;

EID: 0029757598     PISSN: 01657836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0165-7836(95)00434-3     Document Type: Article

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