Recruiting at the Edge: Kinetic Energy Inhibits Anchovy Populations in the Western Mediterranean

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Ruiz, Javier ^a   Macías, Diego ^a   Rincón, Margarita M ^a   Pascual, Ananda ^b   Catalán, Ignacio A ^b   Navarro, Gabriel ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS MARINAS DE ANDALUCÍA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; ANCHOVY; ARTICLE; FISHERY; LARVA; NONHUMAN; OCEAN CURRENT; POPULATION DISPERSION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FISHES; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 84874542473     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0055523     Document Type: Article

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