Spawning and transport dynamics of Atlantic menhaden: Inferences from characteristics of immigrating larvae and predictions of a hydrodynamic model

Fisheries Oceanography

Volumn 8, Issue SUPPL. 2, 1999, Pages 93-110

  Rice, James A ^a   Quinlan, John A ^b   Nixon, Stephen W ^a   Hettler Jr , William F ^c   Warlen, Stanley M ^c   Stegmann, Petra M ^d  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c SOUTHEAST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Atlantic menhaden; Hydrodynamic model; Larval transport; Otolith analysis

Indexed keywords

HYDRODYNAMICS; LARVAL TRANSPORT; MODEL; SPAWNING;

(WEST); ATLANTIC OCEAN;

ANIMALIA; BREVOORTIA TYRANNUS; CLUPEIFORMES; TYRANNUS;

EID: 0033367534     PISSN: 10546006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2419.1999.00021.x     Document Type: Article

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