Larval transport during winter in the SABRE study area: Results of a coupled vertical larval behaviour-three-dimensional circulation model

Fisheries Oceanography

Volumn 8, Issue SUPPL. 2, 1999, Pages 57-76

  Hare, Jonathan A ^a   Quinlan, John A ^b   Werner, Francisco E ^b   Blanton, Brian O ^b   Govoni, John J ^a   Forward, Richard B ^c   Settle, Lawrence R ^a   Hoss, Donald E ^a  

^a NOAA National Ocean Service   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULATION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; LARVAL TRANSPORT; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

BREVOORTIA TYRANNUS; LEIOSTOMUS XANTHURUS;

EID: 0033369456     PISSN: 10546006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2419.1999.00017.x     Document Type: Article

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