Recruitment of striped bass in Chesapeake Bay: Spatial and temporal environmental variability and availability of zooplankton prey

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 409, Issue , 2010, Pages 213-228

  Martino, E J ^a,b   Houde, E D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biophysical interactions; Chesapeake Bay; Larval fish; Recruitment variability; Striped bass; Trophodynamics; Zooplankton

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM; LARVA; PERCIFORM; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL; THERMODYNAMICS; TURBIDITY; ZOOPLANKTON;

CHESAPEAKE BAY; SUSQUEHANNA RIVER; UNITED STATES;

BOSMINA LONGIROSTRIS; CLADOCERA; COPEPODA; EURYTEMORA AFFINIS; MORONE; MORONE SAXATILIS;

EID: 77954110889     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps08586     Document Type: Article

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