Larval fish assemblages and water mass structure off the oligotrophic south-western Australian coast

Fisheries Oceanography

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 16-31

  Muhling, B A ^a   Beckley, L E ^a   Koslow, J A ^b   Pearce, A F ^b  

^a MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Assemblages; Capes Current; Fish larvae; Indian Ocean; Leeuwin Current; Western Australia

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COASTAL ZONE; CONTINENTAL SHELF; LARVA; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; SEASONAL VARIATION; TELEOST; WATER DEPTH; WATER MASS;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; CAPES CURRENT; INDIAN OCEAN; LEEUWIN CURRENT; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

BLENNIIDAE; CARANGIDAE; CLUPEIDAE; ENGRAULIDAE; GOBIIDAE; GONOSTOMATIDAE; LABRIDAE; MYCTOPHIDAE; PHOSICHTHYIDAE; TELEOSTEI; TRAGELAPHUS EURYCERUS;

EID: 37349111523     PISSN: 10546006     EISSN: 13652419     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2419.2007.00452.x     Document Type: Article

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