Environmental factors influencing larval sprat Sprattus sprattus feeding during spawning time in the Baltic Sea

Fisheries Oceanography

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 219-230

  Voss, R ^a   Dickmann, M ^b   Hinrichsen, H H ^a   Floeter, J ^c  

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

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Baltic; Environmental factors; Feeding; Generalized additive models; Interaction; Larvae; Modelling; Sprat

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COVER; CLUPEOID; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEEDING; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; JUVENILE; LARVA; LIGHT QUALITY; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SPAWNING; SURVIVAL; TURBULENCE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; BORNHOLM BASIN;

SPRATTUS SPRATTUS; SPRATTUS SPRATTUS BALTICUS;

EID: 42449085249     PISSN: 10546006     EISSN: 13652419     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2419.2008.00474.x     Document Type: Article

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