Relationships between individual behaviour and morphometry under different experimental conditions of temperature and feeding in glass eels (Anguilla anguilla)

Knowledge and Management of Aquatic Ecosystems

Volumn , Issue 390-391, 2008, Pages

  Bardonnet, A ^a,b   Labonne, J ^a,b   Laffite, J ^a,b   Garnier, J ^a,b  

^a Ecologie Comportementale et Biologie des Populations de Poissons   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE PAU ET DES PAYS DE L'ADOUR   (France)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Body condition; Colonization; Glass eel; Migration; Pigmentation

Indexed keywords

ANGUILLA ANGUILLA;

EID: 67649202313     PISSN: 19619502     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/kmae/2009001     Document Type: Article

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