Exceptionally strong year classes in plaice Pleuronectes platessa: Are they generated during the pelagic stage only, or also in the juvenile stage?

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 199, Issue , 2000, Pages 255-262

  Van Der Veer, Henk W ^a   Geffen, Audrey J ^b   Witte, Johannes ^a  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cold winter; Control; Flatfish; Hydrography; Otolith microstructure; Pleuronectes platessa; Regulation; Temperature; Year class strength

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; ICHTHYOPLANKTON;

WADDEN SEA;

CRUSTACEA; INVERTEBRATA; PLEURONECTES PLATESSA; PLEURONECTIFORMES;

EID: 0034717761     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps199255     Document Type: Article

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