Oceanic fronts in the Sargasso Sea control the early life and drift of Atlantic eels

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 277, Issue 1700, 2010, Pages 3593-3599

  Munk, Peter ^a   Hansen, Michael M ^b   Maes, Gregory E ^c   Nielsen, Torkel G ^a,b   Castonguay, Martin ^d   Riemann, Lasse ^e   Sparholt, Henrik ^f   Als, Thomas D ^a   Aarestrup, Kim ^a   Andersen, Nikolaj G ^g   Bachler, Mirjam ^h  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^d MAURICE LAMONTAGNE INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^e LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^f International Council for Exploration of the Sea ^*  (Denmark)

^g UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^h INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

American eel; European eel; Larval drift; Oceanic fronts; Sargasso Sea; Subtropical Counter Current

Indexed keywords

BIOPHYSICS; DRIFT FEEDING; EEL; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; LARVA; LIFE CYCLE; LIFE HISTORY; METAMORPHOSIS; MIGRATION; OCEANIC CURRENT; OCEANIC FRONT; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SPAWNING; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SUBTROPICAL REGION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; SARGASSO SEA;

ANGUILLA ANGUILLA; ANGUILLA ROSTRATA; ANGUILLIDAE;

EID: 78649972552     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.0900     Document Type: Conference Paper

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