Annual variability in upstream migration of glass eels in a southern USA coastal watershed

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 29-37

  Overton, Anthony S ^a   Rulifson, Roger A ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anguilla rostrata; Freshwater migration; Glass eel; River discharge

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; COASTAL ZONE; EEL; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ICHTHYOPLANKTON; MIGRATION; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); RIVER DISCHARGE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WATER TEMPERATURE; WATERSHED;

NORTH AMERICA; ROANOKE RIVER; UNITED STATES;

ANGUILLA ROSTRATA;

EID: 58149173381     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10641-008-9386-y     Document Type: Article

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