Plankton effect on cod recruitment in the North Sea

Nature

Volumn 426, Issue 6967, 2003, Pages 661-664

  Beaugrand, Grégory ^a,b   Brander, Keith M ^c   Lindley, J Alistair ^b   Souissi, Sami ^a   Reid, Philip C ^b  

^a Laboratoire d Océanologie et de Géosciences   (France)

^b THE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c ICES ^*  (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEMS; OCEAN HABITATS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

BIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS;

MARINE BIOLOGY;

GADOID; OVERFISHING; PLANKTON; RECRUITMENT; SURVIVAL; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC COD; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BIOLOGICAL PARAMETER; BIOMASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPEPOD; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ECOSYSTEM; FISHING; LARVA; NONHUMAN; PARAMETER; PLANKTON; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PREY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALS; BIOMASS; DIET; ECOSYSTEM; FISHES; LARVA; NORTH SEA; PLANKTON; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASONS; SEAWATER; SURVIVAL RATE; TEMPERATURE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA;

ANIMALIA; COPEPODA; GADIFORMES; GADUS; GADUS MORHUA;

EID: 0346258016     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02164     Document Type: Article

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