The duration of migration of Atlantic Anguilla larvae

Fish and Fisheries

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 289-306

  Bonhommeau, Sylvain ^a   Castonguay, Martin ^b   Rivot, Etienne ^a   Sabatié, Richard ^a   Le Pape, Olivier ^a  

^a Ecology and Ecosystem Health   (France)

^b MAURICE LAMONTAGNE INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Lagrangian modelling; Leptocephali; North Atlantic; Otoliths; Sargasso Sea

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; LARVAL TRANSPORT; LIFE CYCLE; MIGRATORY BEHAVIOR; OTOLITH; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); TELEOST; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; EUROPE; NORTH AMERICA; SARGASSO SEA;

ANGUILLA ANGUILLA; ANGUILLA ROSTRATA;

EID: 77955350779     PISSN: 14672960     EISSN: 14672979     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-2979.2010.00362.x     Document Type: Review

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