Recruitment in a temperate demersal fish: Does larval supply matter?

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 672-679

  Levin, Phillip S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TAUTOGOLABRUS ADSPERSUS;

EID: 0029813196     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.1996.41.4.0672     Document Type: Article

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