Bathymetric preferences of juvenile European hake (Merluccius merluccius)

ICES Journal of Marine Science

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 963-969

  Bartolino, Valerio ^a   Ottavi, Alessandro ^a   Colloca, Francesco ^a   Ardizzone, Gian Domenico ^a   Stefánsson, Gunnar ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Bathymetric distribution; Hake; Recruit; Thin plate spline

Indexed keywords

BATHYMETRY; CONTINENTAL SHELF; GADOID; HABITAT SELECTION; JUVENILE; LIFE CYCLE; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

MERLUCCIUS MERLUCCIUS; REXEA SOLANDRI;

EID: 46249110339     PISSN: 10543139     EISSN: 10959289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fsn079     Document Type: Article

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