Escapement success and patterns of downstream migration of female silver eel Anguilla anguilla in the River Meuse

Ecology of Freshwater Fish

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 395-403

  Verbiest, Hilde ^a   Breukelaar, André ^b   Ovidio, Michaël ^c   Philippart, Jean Claude ^c   Belpaire, Claude ^a  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR NATURE AND FOREST INBO   (Belgium)

^b RIJKSWATERSTAAT   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Anguilla anguilla; Downstream migration; River Meuse; Silver eel; Telemetry

Indexed keywords

ANGUILLA; ANGUILLA ANGUILLA;

EID: 84861921220     PISSN: 09066691     EISSN: 16000633     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0633.2012.00559.x     Document Type: Article

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