Intertidal seagrass beds (Zostera noltii) as spawning grounds for transient fishes in the Wadden Sea

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 312, Issue , 2006, Pages 235-243

  Polte, Patrick ^a   Asmus, Harald ^a  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Belone belone; Clupea harengus; Fishes; Gasterosteus aculeatus; Intertidal seagrass; North Sea; Spawning; Wadden Sea; Zostera noltii

Indexed keywords

FISH; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MIGRATION; PARENTAL CARE; SEAGRASS; SPAWNING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA; WADDEN SEA;

ALGAE; BELONE BELONE; CLUPEA HARENGUS; FUCUS; FUCUS VESICULOSUS; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS; HALOPHILA; PHAEOPHYCEAE; PISCES; ZOSTERA MARINA; ZOSTERA NOLTII;

EID: 33744484732     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps312235     Document Type: Article

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