Ecology of Juvenile and Adult Stages of Flatfishes: Distribution and Dynamics of Habitat Associations

Flatfishes: Biology and Exploitation

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 164-184

  Able, Kenneth W ^a   Neuman, Melissa J ^b   Wennhage, Håkan ^c  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SOUTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c GÖTEBORG UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Early juvenile habitat; Flatfish distribution; Flatfishes; Habitat; Juvenile and adult stages

Indexed keywords

EID: 84948172889     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470995259.ch8     Document Type: Chapter

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