Eel community structure, fluvial recruitment of Anguilla marmorata and indication for a weak local production of spawners from rivers of Réunion and Mauritius islands

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 93-105

  Robinet, Tony ^a   Feunteun, Eric ^b   Keith, Philippe ^c   Marquet, Gérard ^d   Olivier, Jean Michel ^e   Réveillac, Elodie ^b   Valade, Pierre ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LA ROCHELLE   (France)

^c MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^d UMR CNRS 5023 Université de Lyon I ^*  (Reunion)

^e Laboratoire d'Ecologie des Hydrosystemes Naturels et Anthropises   (France)

^f Centre des Eaux Douces   (Reunion)

Author keywords

Conservation; Fluvial recruitment; Indian Ocean; Reproductive turnover; Tropical eels

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDINAL ZONATION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; EEL; POPULATION DENSITY; RECRUITMENT; SPAWNING; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (WEST); INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS; MASCARENE ISLANDS; MAURITIUS; REUNION;

ANGUILLA MARMORATA; ANGUILLIDAE;

EID: 33846157730     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10641-006-9042-3     Document Type: Article

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