Factors affecting the spawning period of sardine in two highly oligotrophic Seas

Marine Biology

Volumn 151, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1559-1569

  Ganias, Konstantinos ^a   Somarakis, Stylianos ^b   Koutsikopoulos, Constantin ^b   Machias, Athanassios ^c  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^c INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; CLUPEOID; EGG PRODUCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FAT RESERVE; GROWING SEASON; HISTOLOGY; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPAWNING POPULATION;

AEGADIAN ISLANDS; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; IONIAN ISLANDS; ITALY; SICILY; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TRAPANI;

SARDINA PILCHARDUS;

EID: 34247613927     PISSN: 00253162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00227-006-0601-0     Document Type: Article

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