Salinity effects on survival, growth and morphometry of four Egyptian Artemia Populations (International Study on Artemia. LXVII)

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 523, Issue 1-3, 2004, Pages 175-188

  El Bermawi, Nagy ^a   Baxevanis, Athanasios D ^b   Abatzopoulos, Theodore J ^b   Van Stappen, Gilbert ^a   Sorgeloos, Patrick ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Artemia; discriminant analysis; Egypt; growth; morphometry; salinity; survival

Indexed keywords

MORPHOMETRIC RESPONSES; SALINITY EFFECTS;

COASTAL ENGINEERING; LAKES; POPULATION STATISTICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SALINE WATER;

MICROORGANISMS;

GROWTH; MORPHOMETRY; SALINITY; SURVIVAL;

AFRICA; EGYPT; NORTH AFRICA;

ANOSTRACA; ARTEMIA;

EID: 3142676569     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:HYDR.0000033124.49676.5c     Document Type: Article

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