Ichthyoplankton assemblage structure in Mississippi sound as revealed by canonical correspondence analysis

Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 237-257

  Rakocinski, Chet F ^a   Lyczkowski Shultz, Joanne ^b   Richardson, Sally L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^b NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

estuarine nursery; Gulf of Mexico; larval fish assemblages; marine ichthyoplankton

Indexed keywords

DISSOLVED OXYGEN;

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ESTUARINE NURSERY; ESTUARY; FISH LARVA; ICHTHYOPLANKTON; LARVAL FISH ASSEMBLAGES; NURSERY GROUND;

ADULT; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; DISPERSION; DYNAMICS; ESTUARY; FISH; LARVA; LIFESTYLE; MEXICO; NURSERY; SALINITY; TAXON; UNITED STATES; WATER TEMPERATURE;

USA, MISSISSIPPI, MISSISSIPPI SOUND;

EID: 0030218984     PISSN: 02727714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/ecss.1996.0067     Document Type: Article

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