Invading Mnemiopsis leidyi as a potential threat to Baltic fish

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 349, Issue , 2007, Pages 303-306

  Haslob, Holger ^a   Clemmesen, Catriona ^a   Schaber, Matthias ^a   Hinrichsen, Hans Harald ^a   Schmidt, Jörn Oliver ^a   Voss, Rüdiger ^a   Kraus, Gerd ^b   Köster, Friedrich W ^b  

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

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Baltic food web; Cod recruitment; Invasive species

Indexed keywords

CLUPEOID; COMMERCIAL SPECIES; FOOD WEB; GADOID; INVASIVE SPECIES; INVERTEBRATE; RECRUITMENT; SPAWNING GROUND;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA;

MNEMIOPSIS LEIDYI; SPRATTUS SPRATTUS;

EID: 36949016658     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps07283     Document Type: Article

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