Larval fish assemblages along the south-eastern Australian shelf: Linking mesoscale non-depth-discriminate structure and water masses

Fisheries Oceanography

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 263-280

  Keane, John P ^a   Neira, Francisco J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

East Australian Current; Faunal transition; Larval fish assemblages; Multivariate analyses; Pelagic shelf ecosystem; Tasman Sea; Trachurus

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; FISHERY SURVEY; LARVA; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PELAGIC ECOSYSTEM; PELAGIC FISH; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WATER COLUMN; WATER MASS;

EAST AUSTRALIAN CURRENT; PACIFIC OCEAN; TASMAN SEA;

PISCES; TRACHURUS;

EID: 47349101447     PISSN: 10546006     EISSN: 13652419     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2419.2008.00478.x     Document Type: Article

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