Annual cycle of clupeiform larvae around Gran Canaria Island, Canary Islands

Fisheries Oceanography

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 293-300

  Becognee P ^a   Almeida, C ^a   Barrera, A ^b   Hernandez Guerra A ^a   Hernandez Leon S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

Author keywords

Annual cycle; Canary Islands; Clupeiform; Fish larvae; Lunar periodicity

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ANNUAL CYCLE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ICHTHYOPLANKTON; LARVA; LUNAR PHASE; MOON; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; TELEOST; UPWELLING;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CANARY ISLANDS; EURASIA; EUROPE; GRAN CANARIA; LAS PALMAS; MACARONESIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

CLUPEIFORMES; ENGRAULIDAE; ENGRAULIS ENCRASICOLUS; SARDINA PILCHARDUS; SARDINELLA AURITA; TRAGELAPHUS EURYCERUS;

EID: 33745201170     PISSN: 10546006     EISSN: 13652419     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2419.2005.00390.x     Document Type: Article

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