Are drifting FADs essential for testing the ecological trap hypothesis?

Fisheries Research

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 60-63

  Dagorn, Laurent ^a   Holland, Kim N ^b   Filmalter, John ^a,c  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c SOUTH AFRICAN INSTITUTE FOR AQUATIC BIODIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Ecological trap hypothesis; FAD; Tunas

Indexed keywords

SCOMBRIDAE;

EID: 77956648848     PISSN: 01657836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fishres.2010.07.002     Document Type: Article

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