Relating Environmental Fluctuation and the Early Growth of Estuarine Fishes: Ontogenetic Standardization

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 129, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 210-221

  Rakocinski, Chet F ^a   Comyns, Bruce H ^a   Peterson, Mark S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH RATE; ICHTHYOFAUNA; JUVENILE; ONTOGENY; OTOLITH;

ANIMALIA; ICHTHYOFAUNA; MICROPOGONIAS UNDULATUS; PISCES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033968947     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/1548-8659(2000)129<0210:REFATE>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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