How fast can the European eel (Anguilla anguilla) larvae cross the Atlantic Ocean?

Fisheries Oceanography

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 371-385

  Bonhommeau, Sylvain ^a,b   Blanke, Bruno ^b   Tréguier, Anne Marie ^c   Grima, Nicolas ^b   Rivot, Etienne ^a   Vermard, Youen ^a   Greiner, Eric ^d   Le Pape, Olivier ^a  

^a Ecology and Ecosystem Health   (France)

^b IFREMER   (France)

^c IRD Centre de Bretagne   (France)

^d MERCATOR OCÉAN   (France)

Author keywords

Anguilla; Fractals; Gulf Stream; Lagrangian modelling; Leptocephali; Migration duration; Sargasso Sea

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; CONTINENTAL SHELF; EEL; ESTIMATION METHOD; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; LARVAL TRANSPORT; MIGRATORY BEHAVIOR; MIGRATORY POPULATION; SPAWNING GROUND; SWIMMING BEHAVIOR;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; SARGASSO SEA;

ANGUILLA ANGUILLA;

EID: 70350009884     PISSN: 10546006     EISSN: 13652419     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2419.2009.00517.x     Document Type: Article

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