Recruitment

Flatfishes: Biology and Exploitation

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 120-137

  Van der Veer, Henk W ^a   Leggett, William C ^b  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Flatfishes; Geographic distribution; Life cycle; Life history; Recruitment variability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84948132470     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470995259.ch6     Document Type: Chapter

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