Swimming ability and behaviour of post-larvae of a temperate marine fish re-entrained in the pelagic environment

Oecologia

Volumn 135, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 158-166

  Hindell, Jeremy S ^a   Jenkins, Gregory P ^a   Moran, Sean M ^b   Keough, Michael J ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES   (Australia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Dispersal; Hydrodynamics; Recruitment; SCUBA; Sillaginidae

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DISPERSAL; FISH; HYDRODYNAMICS; RECRUITMENT; SWIMMING BEHAVIOR; VERTICAL MIGRATION;

AUSTRALIA; PORT PHILLIP BAY; VICTORIA;

ANIMALIA; HALOPHILA; PERCIFORMES; SILLAGINIDAE; SILLAGINODES PUNCTATA;

EID: 0037353571     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-003-1180-0     Document Type: Article

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