Life history and seasonal abundance of Aurélia aurita medusae in Tokyo Bay, Japan

Plankton Biology and Ecology

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 48-58

  Toyokawa, Masaya ^a,c   Furota, Toshio ^b   Terazaki, Makoto ^a  

^a FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

^b TOHO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coastal ecosystem; Distribution; Ephyrae; Population dynamics; Scyphomedusae

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; GROWTH; LIFE HISTORY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES OCCURRENCE;

JAPAN;

AURELIA AURITA; SCYPHOZOA;

EID: 0034022227     PISSN: 13430874     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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