The invasive ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi poses no direct threat to Baltic cod eggs and larvae

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 431-439

  Jaspers, Cornelia ^a   Titelman, Josefin ^b   Hansson, Lars Johan ^c   Haraldsson, Matilda ^d   Ditlefsen, Christine Røllike ^d  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c GÖTEBORG UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; BREEDING SEASON; BREEDING SITE; CAPTURE METHOD; CLEARANCE RATE; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; EGG; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GADOID; INGESTION RATE; INVASIVE SPECIES; INVERTEBRATE; LABORATORY METHOD; LARVA; PREDATION; VIDEOGRAPHY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA;

ARTEMIA; ARTEMIA SALINA; GADUS CALLARIAS; GADUS MORHUA; MNEMIOPSIS; MNEMIOPSIS LEIDYI;

EID: 79952047615     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2011.56.2.0431     Document Type: Article

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