Use of population fitness to evaluate the nursery function of juvenile habitats

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 385, Issue , 2009, Pages 39-49

  Fodrie, F Joel ^a,b   Levin, Lisa A ^a   Lucas, Andrew J ^a  

^a INTEGRATIVE OCEANOGRAPHY DIVISION   (United States)

^b DAUPHIN ISLAND SEA LAB   (United States)

Author keywords

California halibut; Demography; Fitness; Life table response experiments; Matrix models; Nursery; Paralichthys californicus; Source sink

Indexed keywords

COHORT ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; FITNESS; FLATFISH; GROWTH RATE; HABITAT CONSERVATION; JUVENILE; LIFE HISTORY; LIFE TABLE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION MODELING; SOURCE-SINK DYNAMICS; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SUBPOPULATION;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

INVERTEBRATA; PARALICHTHYS CALIFORNICUS;

EID: 67650532073     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps08069     Document Type: Article

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