Variability of larval Baltic sprat (Sprattus sprattus L.) otolith growth: A modeling approach combining spatially and temporally resolved biotic and abiotic environmental key variables

Fisheries Oceanography

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 463-479

  Hinrichsen, Hans Harald ^a   Voss, Rudi ^b   Huwer, Bastian ^c   Clemmesen, Catriona ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Bornholm Basin; Generalized additive model analysis; Growth rates; Individual based model; Otolith microstructure analysis; Recruitment

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FISH; FISHERY MODELING; GROWTH RATE; HYDRODYNAMICS; IDENTIFICATION KEY; LARVA; MICROSTRUCTURE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OTOLITH; PLANKTON; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SAMPLING; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TURBULENCE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA;

SPRATTUS SPRATTUS; SPRATTUS SPRATTUS BALTICUS;

EID: 77958475322     PISSN: 10546006     EISSN: 13652419     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2419.2010.00557.x     Document Type: Article

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