Temporal and spatial patterns of sea lice levels on sea trout in western Scotland in relation to fish farm production cycles

Biology Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 548-551

  Middlemas, S J ^a   Raffell, J A ^a   Hay, D W ^a   Hatton Ellis, M ^a   Armstrong, J D ^a  

^a MARINE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aquaculture; Lepeophtheirus; Salmo trutta

Indexed keywords

AQUACULTURE PRODUCTION; CRUSTACEAN; SALMONID; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WILD POPULATION;

HIGHLAND; LOCH SHIELDAIG; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

LEPEOPHTHEIRUS; PHTHIRAPTERA; SALMO SALAR; SALMO TRUTTA; SALMONIDAE;

ANIMAL; AQUACULTURE; COPEPOD; DEMOGRAPHY; ECTOPARASITIC INFESTATIONS; FISH DISEASES; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREVALENCE; RIVER; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME; TROUT; UNITED KINGDOM; VETERINARY;

ANIMALS; AQUACULTURE; COPEPODA; DEMOGRAPHY; ECTOPARASITIC INFESTATIONS; FISH DISEASES; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREVALENCE; RIVERS; SCOTLAND; TIME FACTORS; TROUT;

EID: 77957265406     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2009.0872     Document Type: Article

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