Environmental control of the recruitment of sardines (Sardina pilchardus) over the western saharan shelf between 1995 and 2002: A coupled physical-biogeochemical modelling experiment

Fisheries Oceanography

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 287-300

  MacHu, E ^a,b   Ettahiri, O ^c   Kifani, S ^c   Benazzouz, A ^c   Makaoui, A ^c   Demarcq, H ^d  

^a IRD Centre de Bretagne   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c Institut National de Recherche Halieutique   (Morocco)

^d Ctr Rech Halieutique IFREMER/IRD   (France)

Author keywords

Canary upwelling; Hydrodynamic and biogeochemical modelling; Plankton biomass; Potential spawning habitat; Recruitment; Sardina pilchardus

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOMASS; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GADOID; HYDRODYNAMICS; PHYTOPLANKTON; PLANKTIVORE; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SALINITY; SPAWNING GROUND; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; UPWELLING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; SAHARAN BANK;

CLUPEIDAE; SARDINA PILCHARDUS;

EID: 68949176680     PISSN: 10546006     EISSN: 13652419     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2419.2009.00511.x     Document Type: Article

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