Where once the eel and the elephant were together: Decline of the European eel because of changing hydrology in southwest Europe and northwest Africa?

Fish and Fisheries

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 380-411

  Kettle, A James ^a   Asbjorn Vollestad L ^b   Wibig, Joanna ^c  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT OSWEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LODZ   (Poland)

Author keywords

Dams; Drought; European eel; Malaria; Morocco; North Atlantic Oscillation

Indexed keywords

DAM CONSTRUCTION; DATA SET; DISTURBANCE; DROUGHT; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; EEL; ELEPHANT; HABITAT LOSS; HYDROLOGICAL CHANGE; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; MIGRATION; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; OVERFISHING; POISONING; POPULATION DECLINE; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; SPAWNING;

AFRICA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; EUROPE; SARGASSO SEA;

ANGUILLA; ANGUILLA ANGUILLA; ANGUILLA ROSTRATA;

EID: 80054956234     PISSN: 14672960     EISSN: 14672979     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-2979.2010.00400.x     Document Type: Article

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