Contrasting multispecies patterns in larval fish production trace inter-annual variability in oceanographic conditions over the N.E. Aegean Sea continental shelf (Eastern Mediterranean)

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 670, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 275-287

  Somarakis, Stylianos ^a   Ramfos, Alexis ^b   Palialexis, Andreas ^a   Valavanis, Vasilis D ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

^b Department of Aquaculture and Fisheries   (Greece)

Author keywords

Black Sea water; Ichthyoplankton; North Aegean Sea

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLUPEOID; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; CONTINENTAL SHELF; ICHTHYOPLANKTON; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; MESOPELAGIC ZONE; PELAGIC FISH;

AEGEAN SEA; BLACK SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SEA OF MARMARA; TURKEY;

AUXIS ROCHEI; ENGRAULIDAE; ENGRAULIS ENCRASICOLUS; PISCES; SARDINELLA AURITA; SCOMBER JAPONICUS; SERRANUS CABRILLA; SYMPHURUS NIGRESCENS; TRACHINUS DRACO; TRACHURUS;

EID: 79957800765     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-011-0677-5     Document Type: Article

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