Assessing early recruitment dynamics and its demographic consequences among tropical reef fishes: Accommodating variation in recruitment seasonality and longevity

Austral Ecology

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 226-233

  Robertson, D Ross ^a   Kaufmann, Karl W ^a  

^a SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

Coral reefs; Fish; Great Barrier Reef; Longevity; Recruitment; Seasonality; Tropical northwest Atlantic

Indexed keywords

EID: 17444432296     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.1998.tb00724.x     Document Type: Article

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