Temporal variability in estuarine fish otolith elemental fingerprints: Implications for connectivity assessments

Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science

Volumn 112, Issue , 2012, Pages 216-224

  Reis Santos, Patrick ^a,b   Gillanders, Bronwyn M ^b   Tanner, Susanne E ^a   Vasconcelos, Rita P ^a   Elsdon, Travis S ^b   Cabral, Henrique N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Connectivity; Estuaries; Nurseries; Otolith chemistry; Portugal; Temporal variation

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONNECTIVITY; ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA METHOD; NURSERY GROUND; OTOLITH; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

PORTUGAL;

DICENTRARCHUS LABRAX; PISCES; PLATICHTHYS FLESUS; PLEURONECTOIDEI; SERRANIDAE;

EID: 84866928533     PISSN: 02727714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecss.2012.07.027     Document Type: Article

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