Migrations in an extreme northern population of Arctic charr Salvelinus alpinus: Insights from otolith microchemistry

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 136, Issue 1-3, 1996, Pages 13-23

  Radtke, Richard ^a   Svenning, Martin ^b   Malone, Daniel ^a   Klementsen, Anders ^b   Ruzicka, James ^a   Fey, Dariusz ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^c NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Anadromy; Electron microprobe; Life history; Norway; Spitsbergen; Strontium

Indexed keywords

SALVELINUS ALPINUS;

ANADROMOUS SPECIES; ARCTIC CHARR; MIGRATION; MIGRATIONS; OTOLITH; STRONTIUM:CALCIUM RATIO;

SVALBARD, SPITSBERGEN;

EID: 0029669643     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps136013     Document Type: Article

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