Small-scale spatial and temporal variability of larval fish assemblages at an isolated oceanic island

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 444, Issue , 2012, Pages 207-222

  Macedo Soares, L C P ^a   Freire, A S ^a   Muelbert, J H ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Equatorial Atlantic; Ichthyoplankton; Reef fish larvae; Saint Paul's Rocks

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ARCHIPELAGO; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ENDEMIC SPECIES; ICHTHYOPLANKTON; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; ISOLATED POPULATION; LARVA; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; PELAGIC FISH; REEF; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE WATER; TAXONOMY; TELEOST;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL); MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE; SAINT PAUL'S ROCKS;

CERATOSCOPELUS WARMINGII; ENTOMACRODUS VOMERINUS; GONOSTOMATIDAE; LAMPADENA LUMINOSA; MICROPTERUS; MYCTOPHIDAE; OXYPORHAMPHUS MICROPTERUS; POMACENTRIDAE; STEGASTES SANCTIPAULI;

EID: 84855698059     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps09436     Document Type: Article

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