Coupling ecosystem and individual-based models to simulate the influence of environmental variability on potential growth and survival of larval sprat (Sprattus sprattus L.) in the North Sea

Fisheries Oceanography

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 333-351

  Daewel, Ute ^a   Peck, Myron A ^a   Kühn, Wilfried ^a   St John, Michael A ^a   Alekseeva, Irina ^b,c   Schrum, Corinna ^b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c BJERKNES CENTRE FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

ECOSMO; North Sea; Spatially explicit IBM; Sprat

Indexed keywords

COHORT ANALYSIS; ECOSYSTEM; FISH; FOOD CONSUMPTION; LARVA; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GERMAN BIGHT; NORTH SEA;

SPRATTUS SPRATTUS;

EID: 51349095495     PISSN: 10546006     EISSN: 13652419     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2419.2008.00482.x     Document Type: Article

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