Linking water quality to larval survival: Predation mortality of fish larvae in an oxygen-stratified water column

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 178, Issue , 1999, Pages 39-54

  Breitburg, Denise L ^a   Rose, Kenneth A ^b,c   Cowan Jr , James H ^d  

^a Estuarine Research Center   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral responses; Chesapeake Bay; Fish predator; Food web; Gelatinous zooplankton; Gobiosoma bosc; Hypoxia; Individual based model

Indexed keywords

DISSOLVED OXYGEN; GROWTH RATE; MORTALITY; PREDATION; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALIA; CHRYSAORA QUINQUECIRRHA; GOBIOSOMA BOSC; SCYPHOMEDUSAE; URTICA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033577237     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps178039     Document Type: Article

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