Reproductive schedules in southern bluefin tuna: Are current assumptions appropriate?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Evans, Karen ^a   Patterson, Toby A ^a   Reid, Howard ^b   Harley, Shelton J ^b,c  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b Ministry for Primary Industries   (New Zealand)

^c SECRETARIAT OF THE PACIFIC COMMUNITY   (New Caledonia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FORAGING; INDIAN OCEAN; LATITUDE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MIGRATION; REPRODUCTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOUTHERN BLUEFIN TUNA; SPAWNING; TUNA; ANIMAL; PHYSIOLOGY;

THUNNUS MACCOYII;

ANIMALS; REPRODUCTION; TUNA;

EID: 84859710795     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0034550     Document Type: Article

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