Contrasting assemblages of leptocephali in the western Pacific

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 271, Issue , 2004, Pages 245-259

  Minagawa, Gen ^a   Miller, Michael J ^a   Aoyama, Jun ^a   Wouthuyzen, Sam ^b   Tsukamoto, Katsumi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b INDONESIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCES   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

East China Sea; Eels; Indonesian Seas; Kuroshio Current; Leptocephali; Species assemblages

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EEL; REPRODUCTION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

ANGUILLIDAE; ANGUILLIFORMES;

EID: 2542426828     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps271245     Document Type: Article

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