Distribution and habitat associations of billfish and swordfish larvae across mesoscale features in the gulf of Mexico

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Rooker, Jay R ^a,b   Simms, Jeff R ^a,b   David Wells, R J ^a   Holt, Scott A ^c   Holt, G Joan ^c   Graves, John E ^d   Furey, Nathan B ^a,b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY AT GALVESTON   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Section of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology   (United States)

^d VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SURFACE WATER; SEA WATER;

ARTICLE; BILLFISH; BIOMASS; BLUE MARLIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY; FISH; GULF OF MEXICO; HABITAT; ICHTHYOPLANKTON; ISTIOPHORUS PLATYPTERUS; KAJIKIA ALBIDA; LARVA; MAKAIRA NIGRICANS; NONHUMAN; OIL SPILL; PLANKTON; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; SAILFISH; SALINITY; SARGASSUM; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEA SURFACE WATERS; SPAWNING; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SUMMER; SWORDFISH; WHITE MARLIN; XIPHIAS GLADIUS; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; PERCIFORMES; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME;

ISTIOPHORUS; ISTIOPHORUS PLATYPTERUS; MAKAIRA NIGRICANS; SARGASSUM; TETRAPTURUS ALBIDUS; XIPHIAS GLADIUS; XIPHIIDAE;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; GULF OF MEXICO; LARVA; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PERCIFORMES; SEAWATER; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84859595833     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0034180     Document Type: Article

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