Migration route and spawning area fidelity by North Sea plaice

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 270, Issue 1529, 2003, Pages 2097-2103

  Hunter, Ewan ^a   Metcalfe, Julian D ^a   Reynolds, John D ^b  

^a CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Electronic data storage tag; Homing; Metapopulation; Philopatry; Pleuronectes platessa

Indexed keywords

HOMING BEHAVIOR; METAPOPULATION; MIGRATION; MOVEMENT; SPAWNING;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FISH; MIGRATION; NONHUMAN; PLAICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPAWNING; SUMMER; TEMPERATURE; TOPOGRAPHY; WINTER;

NORTH SEA;

ANIMALIA; PISCES; PLEURONECTES; PLEURONECTES PLATESSA;

EID: 0142105979     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2003.2473     Document Type: Article

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