Spawning season variations of female Nile tilapia, Oreochromis niloticus, from man-made lakes of Cote d'Ivoire

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 375-387

  Duponchelle, Fabrice ^a,d   Cecchi, Philippe ^b   Corbin, Daniel ^b   Nuñez, Jesus ^a   Legendre, Marc ^a,c  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^b Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement Abidjan   (Côte d’Ivoire)

^c Instalasi Penelitian Perikanan A   (Indonesia)

^d SADC/GEF Lake Malawi   (Malawi)

Author keywords

Cichlid; Fish; Inter annual variations; Seasonality

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; PERCID; REPRODUCTION; RESERVOIR; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPAWNING;

COTE D'IVOIRE;

OREOCHROMIS NILOTICUS;

EID: 0033373008     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007588010824     Document Type: Article

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