Decadal-scale responses of larval fish assemblages to multiple ecosystem processes in the northern Gulf of Mexico

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 450, Issue , 2012, Pages 37-53

  Muhling, Barbara A ^a   Lamkin, John T ^b   Richards, William J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b SOUTHEAST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Community analyses; Gulf of Mexico; Ichthyoplankton; Multivariate statistics

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONTINENTAL SHELF; DECADAL VARIATION; FISH; ICHTHYOPLANKTON; LARVA; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PELAGIC ENVIRONMENT; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SHRIMP FISHERY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TRAWLING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO; MISSISSIPPI RIVER; UNITED STATES;

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); MARTES PENNANTI;

EID: 84859231059     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps09540     Document Type: Review

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