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The seaward migration of European eel at a continental scale: A Europe-wide bio...
Verhelst, P.; Righton, D.; Aarestrup, K.; Almeida, P.R.; Bašic, T.; Bolland, J.D.; Carter, L.; Coeck, J.; Costa, J.L.; Dainys, J.; Davidsen, J.G.The European eel (Anguilla anguilla L.) has a catadromous life cycle, with a single panmictic population that colonises continental Europe and northern Africa yet migrates 5000 to 9000 km to spawn in the Atlantic Ocean. It is unknown how this continental migration is organised so individual eels arrive in time for spawning with conspecifics. This meta-analysis combined tracking data from 18 water bodies in fres...
Upstream movement of juvenile eels (Anguilla anguilla L.) in a southwestern Eur...
Monteiro, R.M.; Domingo, I.; Almeida, P.R.; Costa, J.L.; Pereira, E.; Belo, A.F.; Portela, T.; Telhado, A.; Quintella, B.R.The upstream movement of juvenile eels (median total length (TL) = 138 mm) in the Mondego River, Portugal, was analysed between January 2017 and August 2019. A total of 12,019 individuals (TL ranging from 60 to 287 mm) were counted and measured on an eel ladder at Coimbra weir, 44 km upstream from the river mouth, during their upstream movements. Although eels were counted throughout the year, a clear seasonal ...