Trophic interactions affecting a key ecosystem component: A multistage analysis of the recruitment of the barents sea capelin (mallotus villosus)

Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Volumn 67, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1363-1375

  Hjermann, Dag Øystein ^a   Bogstad, Bjarte ^b   Dingsør, Gjert Endre ^a,b   Gjøsæter, Harald ^b   Ottersen, Geir ^a,b   Eikeset, Anne Maria ^a   Stenseth, Nils Christian ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ADULT; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; GADOID; HARVESTING; KEYSTONE SPECIES; LARVA; LATITUDE; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MORTALITY; POPULATION DECLINE; PREDATION; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SPAWNING; TROPHIC INTERACTION; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ARCTIC OCEAN; BARENTS SEA;

BOREOGADUS; CLUPEA HARENGUS; CLUPEIDAE; GADUS MORHUA; MALLOTUS (FISH); MALLOTUS VILLOSUS;

EID: 77958066602     PISSN: 0706652X     EISSN: 12057533     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/F10-064     Document Type: Article

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