Abundance and size of larval fishes outside the entrance to Beaufort Inlet, North Carolina

Estuaries

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 476-499

  Hettler Jr , William F ^a   Hare, Jonathan A ^a  

^a SOUTHEAST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BODY SIZE; ESTUARY; ICHTHYOPLANKTON; POPULATION DENSITY;

BEAUFORT INLET; NORTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

BREVOORTIA TYRANNUS; LAGODON RHOMBOIDES; LEIOSTOMUS XANTHURUS; MICROPOGONIAS UNDULATUS; PARALICHTHYS ALBIGUTTA; PARALICHTHYS DENTATUS; PARALICHTHYS LETHOSTIGMA;

EID: 3543092003     PISSN: 01608347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1352846     Document Type: Article

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