Non-random mortality of Baltic cod larvae inferred from otolith hatch-check sizes

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 181, Issue , 1999, Pages 53-59

  Grønkjær, Peter ^a,b   Schytte, Michael ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Baltic cod; Growth; Otolith hatch check size; Survival; Vertical migration

Indexed keywords

FISH; LARVA; MORTALITY; OTOLITH; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALIA; GADIFORMES; GADUS CALLARIAS; GADUS MORHUA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033580620     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps181053     Document Type: Article

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