Seasonal changes and population dynamics of the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi after its first year of invasion in the Kiel Fjord, Western Baltic Sea

Biological Invasions

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 873-882

  Javidpour, Jamileh ^a   Molinero, Juan Carlos ^a   Peschutter, Jesco ^a   Sommer, Ulrich ^a  

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

Author keywords

Baltic Sea; Biological invasions; Ctenophores; Mnemiopsis leidyi; Population structure

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION OUTBREAK; POPULATION STRUCTURE; REPRODUCTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; ZOOPLANKTON;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; KIEL FJORD; SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN;

CTENOPHORA (COELENTERATES); MNEMIOPSIS LEIDYI;

EID: 61449256121     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-008-9300-8     Document Type: Article

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