Baltic sprat larvae: Coupling food availability, larval condition and survival

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 308, Issue , 2006, Pages 243-254

  Voss, Rüdiger ^a   Clemmesen, Catriona ^a   Baumann, Hannes ^b   Hinrichsen, Hans Harald ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Baltic Sea; Condition; Food availability; Hydrodynamic modelling; Mortality; Sprat larvae

Indexed keywords

BODY CONDITION; FOOD AVAILABILITY; MORTALITY; SURVIVAL;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; BORNHOLM BASIN;

ACARTIA; SPRATTUS SPRATTUS; SPRATTUS SPRATTUS BALTICUS;

EID: 33644971337     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps308243     Document Type: Article

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