Food consumption by clupeids in the Central Baltic: Evidence for top-down control?

ICES Journal of Marine Science

Volumn 56, Issue SUPPL., 1999, Pages 100-113

  Möllmann, Christian ^a   Köster, Friedrich W ^a  

^a GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Central Baltic Sea; Consumption; Food limitation; Herring; Mesozooplankton abundance; Sprat; Top down control

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOOD INTAKE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; POPULATION; PREDATION; SEASONALITY; TROPHIC LEVEL;

PELAGIC ECOSYSTEM; PREDATION; TOP-DOWN CONTROL; TROPHIC STRUCTURE; ZOOPLANKTON;

BALTIC SEA;

CLUPEA HARENGUS; CLUPEIDAE; COPEPODA; GADUS MORHUA; PSEUDOCALANUS ELONGATUS; SPRATTUS SPRATTUS; TEMORA LONGICORNIS;

EID: 0343602830     PISSN: 10543139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmsc.1999.0630     Document Type: Conference Paper

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