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An ecological perspective on the migrations of marine fishes

Reviewing: David Hallock Secor, Migration Ecology of Marine Fishes. 2015 John Hopkins University Press, 292 pp

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Acknowledgments

I am grateful for the invitation by David Noakes to critique this thought-provoking and insightful book. I acknowledge support from NOAA’s Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory.

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  1. Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies, University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA

    Nathan F. Putman

  2. Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Miami, FL, USA

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Putman, N.F. An ecological perspective on the migrations of marine fishes. Environ Biol Fish 99, 801–804 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10641-016-0512-y

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