Geographic differences in recruitment and population structure of a temperate reef fish

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 161, Issue , 1997, Pages 23-35

  Levin, Phillip S ^a,c   Chiasson, Wayne ^b   Green, John M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Gulf of Maine; Habitat structure; Newfoundland; Recruitment; Scale; Tautogolabrus adspersus

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RECRUITMENT; REEF FISH;

ATLANTIC; CANADA; GULF OF MAINE; NEWFOUNDLAND;

ALGAE; ANIMALIA; PERCIFORMES; TAUTOGOLABRUS; TAUTOGOLABRUS ADSPERSUS; TAUTOGOLABRUS ADSPERUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031593085     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps161023     Document Type: Article

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