Survival probability of larval sprat in response to decadal changes in diel vertical migration behavior and prey abundance in the Baltic Sea

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1485-1498

  Hinrichsen, Hans Harald ^a   Peck, Myron A ^b   Schmidt, Jörn ^c   Huwer, Bastian ^d   Voss, Rudi ^c  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ANNUAL VARIATION; CLUPEOID; CRUSTACEAN; DECADAL VARIATION; DIEL MIGRATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; LARVA; PREY AVAILABILITY; PROBABILITY; SPAWNING GROUND; STOCK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; BORNHOLM BASIN;

CALANOIDA; COPEPODA; SPRATTUS SPRATTUS; SPRATTUS SPRATTUS BALTICUS;

EID: 77955617653     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2010.55.4.1485     Document Type: Article

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