Do albacore exert top-down pressure on northern anchovy? Estimating anchovy mortality as a result of predation by juvenile north pacific albacore in the California current system

Fisheries Oceanography

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 242-257

  Glaser, Sarah M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Albacore; Anchovy; California current system; Predation; Recruitment mortality; Top down regulation

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOENERGETICS; BIOMASS; JUVENILE; MORTALITY; PERCIFORM; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); STOCK ASSESSMENT; TIME SERIES; TOP-DOWN APPROACH;

CALIFORNIA CURRENT; PACIFIC OCEAN;

ENGRAULIDAE; ENGRAULIS MORDAX; PISCES; THUNNUS ALALUNGA;

EID: 79953738856     PISSN: 10546006     EISSN: 13652419     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2419.2011.00582.x     Document Type: Article

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