Early- to late-summer population growth and prey consumption by age-0 pollock (Theragra chalcogramma), in two years of contrasting pollock abundance near the Pribilof Islands, Bering Sea

Fisheries Oceanography

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 307-320

  Winter, Andreas ^a   Swartzman, Gordon ^a   Ciannelli, Lorenzo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Bering Sea; Copepod; Euphausiid; Food limitation; Pribilof Islands; Theragra chalcogramma; Walleye pollock

Indexed keywords

POPULATION GROWTH; ABUNDANCE; ACOUSTIC SURVEY; BIOENERGETICS; CRUSTACEAN; FISH; FOOD CONSUMPTION; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PREY SELECTION; ZOOPLANKTON;

ALASKA; NORTH AMERICA; PRIBILOF ISLANDS; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD; BERING SEA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

COPEPODA; EUPHAUSIIDAE; POLLACHIUS VIRENS; THERAGRA CHALCOGRAMMA;

EID: 22044433836     PISSN: 10546006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2419.2005.00341.x     Document Type: Review

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