Growth and mortality of Arctic charr and European whitefish reared at low temperatures

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 650, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 255-263

  Siikavuopio, Sten Ivar ^a   Knudsen, Rune ^b   Amundsen, Per Arne ^b  

^a NOFIMA   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

Coldwater adaptation; Coregonus lavaretus; Growth; Mortality; Salvelinus alpinus

Indexed keywords

COLD WATERS; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; CONSTANT TEMPERATURE; INTRASPECIFIC VARIABILITY; LOW TEMPERATURES; LOW WATER; NATURAL LIGHT; TEMPERATURE TREATMENTS; THREE TEMPERATURE;

AGRICULTURE;

AQUACULTURE;

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; ANTAGONISM; AQUACULTURE; COLD WATER; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; GROWTH RATE; HATCHERY; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; LIGHT EFFECT; LOW TEMPERATURE; MORTALITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION STRUCTURE; REARING; SALMONID CULTURE; SIZE STRUCTURE; SUBARCTIC REGION;

COREGONUS LAVARETUS; SALVELINUS ALPINUS; SALVELINUS FONTINALIS;

EID: 77953962300     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-010-0192-0     Document Type: Article

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