Defining habitats suitable for larval fish in the German Bight (southern North Sea): An IBM approach using spatially- and temporally-resolved, size-structured prey fields

Journal of Marine Systems

Volumn 74, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 329-342

  Kühn, Wilfried ^a   Peck, Myron A ^a   Hinrichsen, Hans Harald ^b   Daewel, Ute ^a   Moll, Andreas ^a   Pohlmann, Thomas ^a   Stegert, Christoph ^a   Tamm, Susanne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

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

Author keywords

Coupled transport growth model; German Bight; Habitat suitability; IBM; Larval sprat; North Sea

Indexed keywords

FISH; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS;

COUPLED TRANSPORT-GROWTH MODEL; GERMAN BIGHT; HABITAT SUITABILITY; LARVAL SPRAT; NORTH SEA;

ECOSYSTEMS;

CLUPEOID; CRUSTACEAN; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; GROWTH RATE; HABITAT QUALITY; LARVA; OTOLITH; PARAMETERIZATION; PREY AVAILABILITY; SIZE STRUCTURE; SURVIVAL;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GERMAN BIGHT; NORTH SEA;

ACARTIA; CLUPEIDAE; COPEPODA; PSEUDOCALANUS ELONGATUS; SPRATTUS SPRATTUS; TEMORA LONGICORNIS;

EID: 54049130447     PISSN: 09247963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmarsys.2008.02.002     Document Type: Article

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