Comparative nutritional condition of larval dab Limanda limanda and lesser sandeel Ammodytes marinus in a highly variable environment

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 334, Issue , 2007, Pages 205-212

  Malzahn, Arne Michael ^a   Clemmesen, Catriona ^b   Wiltshire, Karen Helen ^a   Laakmann, Silke ^a,c   Boersma, Maarten ^a,d  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^d INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Helgoland roads; Larval fishes; North sea; RNA:DNA ratio

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; EEL; FEEDING; FLATFISH; ICHTHYOPLANKTON; LARVA; MORTALITY; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; RECRUITMENT;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRISIAN ISLANDS; GERMANY; HELGOLAND; NORTH FRISIAN ISLANDS; SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN;

AMMODYTES MARINUS; LIMANDA LIMANDA; PISCES;

EID: 34247512640     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps334205     Document Type: Article

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