Drivers of larval fish assemblage shift during the spring-summer transition in the coastal Mediterranean

Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science

Volumn 97, Issue , 2012, Pages 127-135

  Álvarez, Itziar ^a   Catalán, Ignacio A ^a   Jordi, Antoni ^a   Palmer, Miquel ^a   Sabatés, Ana ^b   Basterretxea, Gotzon ^a  

^a INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

^b INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

Author keywords

Coastal zone; Environmental factors; Fish larvae; Seasonality; Western mediterranean

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BENTHOS; COASTAL WATER; COASTAL ZONE; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HYDROGRAPHY; ICHTHYOPLANKTON; LARVA; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; PERCIFORM; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEASONALITY; SPRING (SEASON); SUMMER; TROPHIC STRUCTURE;

BALEARIC ISLANDS; MAJORCA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA (WEST); SPAIN;

BOOPS BOOPS; CORIS JULIS; MULLUS; PISCES; SARDINA PILCHARDUS; SERRANUS CABRILLA; SERRANUS HEPATUS; SPICARA SMARIS; TRACHURUS TRACHURUS;

EID: 84855286521     PISSN: 02727714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecss.2011.11.029     Document Type: Article

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