Changes in growth patterns of wild Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus (L.)) in response to fluctuating environmental conditions

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 650, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 179-191

  Michaud, Wendy K ^a   Dempson, J Brian ^b   Power, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b FISHERIES AND OCEANS CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anadromous; Climate change; Cohort; Growth; Salvelinus alpinus; Temperature

Indexed keywords

ANADROMOUS; CLIMATE CONDITION; CLIMATIC FACTORS; CLIMATIC FLUCTUATIONS; COMMERCIAL FISHERIES; CUMULATIVE EFFECTS; ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; GROWTH PATTERNS; INDIRECT EFFECTS; MEAN SIZE; PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECTS; PREY SPECIES; TEMPERATURE REGIMES;

GROWTH RATE;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CAPTURE METHOD; CATCH COMPOSITION; CLIMATE CHANGE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMERCIAL SPECIES; ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; EXPLOITATION; GROWTH CURVE; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; PREY AVAILABILITY; SALMONID; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WILD POPULATION;

CANADA; NAIN; NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR;

SALVELINUS ALPINUS; SALVELINUS FONTINALIS;

EID: 77953960124     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-010-0091-4     Document Type: Article

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