Linking fisheries, trophic interactions and climate: Threshold dynamics drive herring clupea harengus growth in the central Baltic Sea

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 413, Issue , 2010, Pages 241-252

  Casini, Michele ^a   Bartolino, Valerio ^a   Molinero, Juan Carlos ^b   Kornilovs, Georgs ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Sweden)

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

^c Latvian Fish Resources Agency   (Latvia)

Author keywords

Alternative dynamics; Condition; Ecological threshold; Ecosystem based fisheries management; Herring; Hydro climate; Inter specific densitydependence; Sprat; WAA; Weight at age

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BODY MASS; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLUPEOID; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FISHERY REGULATION; FOOD WEB; GROWTH RESPONSE; POPULATION DENSITY; SPAWNING POPULATION; STOCK ASSESSMENT; TIME SERIES; TROPHIC INTERACTION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA;

CLUPEA HARENGUS; CLUPEIDAE; SPRATTUS SPRATTUS;

EID: 77957364473     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps08592     Document Type: Article

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