Birth-date selection in early life stages of plaice Pleuronectes platessa in the eastern Irish Sea (British Isles)

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 345, Issue , 2007, Pages 255-269

  Fox, Clive J ^a,f   Geffen, Audrey J ^b,c   Taylor, Natasha ^a   Davison, Phil ^a   Rossetti, Helen ^b,d   Nash, Richard D M ^b,e  

^a CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^d BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^e INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^f SCOTTISH MARINE INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Eggs; Larvae; Otolith microstructure; Plaice; Selective mortality; Spawning; Survival

Indexed keywords

BIRTH DATE; EGG DEVELOPMENT; EGG PRODUCTION; FLATFISH; IMMIGRATION; MICROSTRUCTURE; MORTALITY; NURSERY GROUND; OTOLITH; SPAWNING; SURVIVAL;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; IRISH SEA;

PLEURONECTES; PLEURONECTES PLATESSA; TELEOSTEI;

EID: 35348873645     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps06967     Document Type: Article

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