Nursery Function Drives Temporal Patterns in Fish Assemblage Structure in Four Tropical Estuaries

Estuaries and Coasts

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 893-905

  Sheaves, Marcus ^a   Johnston, Ross ^a   Johnson, Ashlee ^a   Baker, Ronald ^a   Connolly, Rod M ^b  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Estuary; Fish; Life history; Monitoring; Nursery ground; Recruitment

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CATCH PER UNIT EFFORT; DATA ACQUISITION; ESTUARY; FISH; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; NURSERY GROUND; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SIZE STRUCTURE;

EID: 84881556599     PISSN: 15592723     EISSN: 15592731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12237-013-9610-7     Document Type: Article

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