Recent recruitment trends of juvenile eels in tributaries of the River Thames

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 672, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 33-37

  Gollock, Matthew ^a   Curnick, David ^a   Debney, Alison ^a  

^a ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anguilla anguilla; Migration; Recruitment decline; Thames Estuary

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; DATA SET; EEL; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; JUVENILE; MIGRATION; POPULATION DECLINE; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS);

ENGLAND; ESSEX [ENGLAND]; RODING RIVER; THAMES ESTUARY; THAMES RIVER [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANGUILLA ANGUILLA;

EID: 79959373838     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-011-0754-9     Document Type: Article

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