Interranual variability in horizontal patterns of larval fish assemblages in the northeastern Aegean Sea (eastern Mediterranean) during early summer

Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 607-619

  Isari, Stamatina ^a   Fragopoulu, Nina ^a   Somarakis, Stylianos ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

Author keywords

community composition; continental shelves; eastern Mediterranean; fish larvae; Greece; horizontal distribution; ichthyoplankton; northeastern Aegean Sea

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ADVECTION; ANNUAL VARIATION; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONTINENTAL SHELF; GYRE; ICHTHYOPLANKTON; MEANDER; SALINITY; SUMMER; TROPHIC CONDITIONS;

AEGEAN SEA; BLACK SEA; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA (EAST); SOUTHERN EUROPE;

CERATOSCOPELUS MADERENSIS; ENGRAULIDAE; ENGRAULIS ENCRASICOLUS; THRACIA;

EID: 50449107910     PISSN: 02727714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecss.2008.06.001     Document Type: Article

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