Larval fishes of a Middle Atlantic Bight estuary: Assemblage structure and temporal stability

Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 222-230

  Witting, David A ^a   Able, Kenneth W ^b   Fahay, Michael P ^a  

^a NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ESTUARY; ICHTHYOFAUNA; LARVA; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

LITTLE EGG INLET; NEW JERSEY; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; ICHTHYOFAUNA; PISCES;

EID: 0032982789     PISSN: 0706652X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/f98-175     Document Type: Article

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