Simulating larval supply to estuarine nursery areas: How important are physical processes to the supply of larvae to the Aransas Pass Inlet?

Fisheries Oceanography

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 181-196

  Brown, C A ^a,c   Holt, S A ^b   Jackson, G A ^a   Brooks, D A ^a   Holt, G J ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Larval supply; Red drum; Sciaenops ocellatus; Tidal inlet

Indexed keywords

CIRCULATION MODELING; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; ICHTHYOPLANKTON; LARVAL TRANSPORT; NURSERY GROUND; TIDAL INLET;

ARANSAS PASS; NORTH AMERICA; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

SCIAENOPS OCELLATUS;

EID: 2442590768     PISSN: 10546006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2419.2004.00285.x     Document Type: Article

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