Evaluating diel, ontogenetic and environmental effects on larval fish vertical distribution using generalized additive models for location, scale and shape

Fisheries Oceanography

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 224-236

  Hernandez, Frank J ^a   Hare, Jonathan A ^b   Fey, Dariusz P ^c  

^a DAUPHIN ISLAND SEA LAB   (United States)

^b ALASKA FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Generalized Additive Models for Location; Larval fish; Scale and Shape; Urophycis regia; Vertical distribution

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DIEL VARIATION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; ICHTHYOPLANKTON; LARVAL TRANSPORT; ONTOGENY; SHAPE; STRATIFICATION; SURVIVORSHIP; TIME SERIES; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION; VERTICAL MIGRATION; WATER COLUMN;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; MIDDLE ATLANTIC BIGHT;

UROPHYCIS REGIA;

EID: 68149162334     PISSN: 10546006     EISSN: 13652419     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2419.2009.00508.x     Document Type: Article

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