Activity and movement patterns of the Lusitanian toadfish inferred from pressure-sensitive data-loggers in the Mira estuary (Portugal)

Fisheries Management and Ecology

Volumn 15, Issue 5-6, 2008, Pages 449-458

  Campos, M C ^a   Costa, J L ^a   Quintella, B R ^a,b   Costa, M J ^c   Almeida, Pedro Rapaso ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ÉVORA   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Activity rhythms; Batrachoididae; Biotelemetry; Circadian cycle; Halobatrachus didactylus; Tidal cycles

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; BIOTELEMETRY; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FISH; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; LABORATORY METHOD; MOVEMENT; PERIODICITY;

BEJA [PORTUGAL]; EURASIA; EUROPE; MIRA RIVER; PORTUGAL; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

BATRACHOIDIDAE; BATRACHOIDIDAE GEN. SP.; HALOBATRACHUS DIDACTYLUS;

EID: 54949123788     PISSN: 0969997X     EISSN: 13652400     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2400.2008.00629.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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