Effect of the mesoscale hydrographic features on larval fish distribution across the shelf break of East China Sea

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 27, Issue 10-11, 2007, Pages 1616-1628

  Okazaki, Yuji ^a   Nakata, Hideaki ^b  

^a FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

^b NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Copepod nauplii; East China Sea; Fish larvae; Frontal eddy; Kuroshio; Less saline water subduction

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CRUSTACEAN; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FISH; LARVAL TRANSPORT; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PREY AVAILABILITY; SHELF BREAK; WARM WATER; WATER COLUMN;

EAST CHINA SEA; KUROSHIO CURRENT; PACIFIC OCEAN;

AUXIS; BREGMACEROS; CHAMPSODON; COPEPODA; DIAPHUS; MAUROLICUS JAPONICUS; SYNAGROPS; TRAGELAPHUS EURYCERUS;

EID: 34249316146     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2007.01.024     Document Type: Article

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