Florida Current frontal eddies and the settlement of coral reef fishes

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1033-1048

  Sponaugle, Su ^a   Lee, Thomas ^a   Kourafalou, Vassiliki ^a   Pinkard, Deanna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CORAL REEF; CURRENT; FISH; LARVAL SETTLEMENT; LARVAL TRANSPORT;

FLORIDA KEYS; FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

ANTHOZOA; PISCES;

EID: 22844443739     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2005.50.4.1033     Document Type: Article

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