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Path of the Kuroshio Current affects the presence of several goby species in the brackish water area in northeastern Kyushu Island, Japan: results of a decade-long survey in the Kita River

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Acknowledgments

A part of this study was conducted in association with the Gokase Group of the Academic Research Group of River Ecosystem, which was supported by the Foundation for Riverfront Improvement and Restoration, Tokyo, Japan.

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  1. Fishery Research Laboratory, Kyushu University, 4-46-24 Tsuyazaki, Fukutsu, Fukuoka, 811-3304, Japan

    Norio Onikura & Shin Oikawa

  2. Institute of Technology and Science, The University of Tokushima, 2-1 Minami-Jyosanjima, Tokushima, 770-8506, Japan

    Ryutei Inui

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Onikura, N., Inui, R. & Oikawa, S. Path of the Kuroshio Current affects the presence of several goby species in the brackish water area in northeastern Kyushu Island, Japan: results of a decade-long survey in the Kita River. Ichthyol Res 60, 98–101 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10228-012-0305-z

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