The Planktonic Stages of Flatfishes: Physical and Biological Interactions in Transport Processes

Flatfishes: Biology and Exploitation

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 94-119

  Bailey, Kevin M ^a   Nakata, Hideaki ^b   Van der Veer, Henk W ^c  

^a NOAA Alaska Fisheries Science Center   (United States)

^b NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Egg and larval morphology; Larval size; Mechanisms of transport and retention; Spawning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84948131777     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470995259.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

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