Changes in northern baltic zooplankton and herring nutrition from 1980s to 1990s: Top-down and bottom-up processes at work

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 165, Issue , 1998, Pages 127-136

  Flinkman, Juha ^a,e   Aro, Eero ^b   Vuorinen, Ilppo ^c   Viitasalo, Markku ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c Archipelago Sea Research Institute   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^e FINNISH INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Finland)

Author keywords

Baltic Sea; Clupea harengus membras; Herring nutrition; Mesozooplankton; Selective predation; Top down and bottom up control

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS PROPORTION; HERRING; NUTRITION; SALINITY; STOMACH CONTENT; ZOOPLANKTON;

BALTIC SEA;

CLUPEA HARENGUS; COPEPODA;

EID: 0032493130     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps165127     Document Type: Article

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