Larval fish assemblages and water mass history in a major faunal transition zone

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1171-1198

  Grothues, Thomas M ^a   Cowen, Robert K ^a,b  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Assemblage; Cape Hatteras; Faunal transition; Ichthyoplankton; Middle Atlantic Bight; South Atlantic Bight

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ICHTHYOPLANKTON; TRANSITION ZONE; WATER EXCHANGE; WATER MASS; ZOOGEOGRAPHY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; UNITED STATES;

BENTHOSEMA GLACIALE; BOTHUS; GLYPTOCEPHALUS CYNOGLOSSUS; HIPPOGLOSSINA OBLONGA; LIMANDA FERRUGINEA; LOPHIUS AMERICANUS; PEPRILUS TRIACANTHUS; SCOMBER SCOMBRUS; XYRICHTHYS NOVACULA;

EID: 0033522847     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0278-4343(99)00010-2     Document Type: Article

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