The match between ocean circulation and zoogeography of epipelagic siphonophores around southern Africa

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

Volumn 82, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 801-810

  Gibbons, Mark J ^a   Thibault Botha, Delphine ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; UPWELLING; ZOOGEOGRAPHY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN;

AQUILEGIA; INVERTEBRATA; SIPHONOPHORA (HYDROZOANS);

EID: 0036774182     PISSN: 00253154     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0025315402006161     Document Type: Article

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