The ichthyoplankton assemblage of the Canaries-African Coastal Transition Zone: A review

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 83, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 314-321

  Rodriguez, J M ^a   Moyano, M ^b   Hernandez Leon, S ^b  

^a INSTITUTO ESPAÑOL DE OCEANOGRAFÍA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OCEANOGRAPHY; PLANKTON; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; WAKES;

ANTICYCLONIC EDDIES; DIEL VERTICAL MIGRATIONS; HORIZONTAL DISTRIBUTION; MESOSCALE FEATURES; MESOSCALE VARIABILITY; OCEANOGRAPHIC PROCESS; UPWELLING FILAMENTS; VERTICALLY STRATIFIED;

FISH;

ABUNDANCE INDEX; COASTAL ZONE; DIEL MIGRATION; EDDY; FISH; ICHTHYOPLANKTON; ISLAND; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SUBTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; TRANSITION ZONE; VERTICAL MIGRATION;

AFRICA; ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CANARY ISLANDS; EURASIA; EUROPE; GRAN CANARIA; LAS PALMAS; MACARONESIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 71549128375     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2009.07.009     Document Type: Article

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