Big fish in shallow water; use of an intertidal surf-zone habitat by large-bodied teleosts and elasmobranchs in tropical northern Australia

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 97, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 821-838

  Tobin, Andrew J ^a   Mapleston, Amos ^a   Harry, Alastair V ^a   Espinoza, Mario ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Intertidal; Refuge; Shallow water; Spawning; Surf zone

Indexed keywords

FISH; FISHERY; FLOODING; GILLNET; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; JUVENILE; PARTURITION; PREDATION RISK; REFUGE; SHALLOW WATER; SPAWNING; SURF ZONE; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84901330155     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10641-013-0182-y     Document Type: Article

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