Investigating the selective survival of summer- over spring-born sprat, Sprattus sprattus, in the Baltic Sea

Fisheries Research

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-14

  Baumann, Hannes ^a   Voss, Rudi ^b   Hinrichsen, Hans Harald ^b   Mohrholz, Volker ^c   Schmidt, Jörn O ^b   Temming, Axel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

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

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acartia; Egg production; Growth; Otolith microstructure; Sprat recruits; Temperature

Indexed keywords

ACARTIA; COPEPODA; GADUS CALLARIAS; SPRATTUS SPRATTUS; SPRATTUS SPRATTUS BALTICUS;

EID: 41949130694     PISSN: 01657836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fishres.2007.11.004     Document Type: Article

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