The role of passive transport and the influence of vertical migration on the pre-settlement distribution of a temperate, demersal fish: Numerical model predictions compared with field sampling

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 184, Issue , 1999, Pages 259-271

  Jenkins, Gregory P ^a   Black, Kerry P ^b   Keough, Michael J ^c  

^a Mar Freshw Rsrc Inst Q   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Numerical hydrodynamic model; Port Phillip Bay; Pre settlement fish; Sillaginodes punctata; Spatial distribution

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; FISH; MODELING; SPATIAL VARIATION; VERTICAL MIGRATION;

AUSTRALIA; PORT PHILLIP BAY;

MERLANGIUS MERLANGUS; SILLAGINODES PUNCTATA;

EID: 0033612686     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps184259     Document Type: Article

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