Fish production and climate: Sprat in the Baltic Sea

Ecology

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 784-794

  MacKenzie, Brian R ^a   Köster, Friedrich W ^a,b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

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

Author keywords

Baltic Sea; Climate change and fish populations; Ecosystem management; Environmental variability; Fisheries ecology and management; Fisheries oceanography; Food web dynamics; Population regulation; Recruitment; Sprat population dynamics

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FISH; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RECRUITMENT; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA;

SPRATTUS SPRATTUS;

EID: 1642506125     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/02-0780     Document Type: Article

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