Implications of a warming North Sea for the growth of haddock Melanogrammus aeglefinus

Journal of Fish Biology

Volumn 78, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1874-1889

  Baudron, A R ^a   Needle, C L ^a,b   Marshall, C T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b MARINE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate change; Density dependence; Individual yield; Modelling; Temperature; Von Bertalanffy

Indexed keywords

SEA WATER;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BODY SIZE; CHEMISTRY; GADIFORMES; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TEMPERATURE; TIME;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; GADIFORMES; GLOBAL WARMING; NORTH SEA; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEAWATER; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS;

MELANOGRAMMUS; MELANOGRAMMUS AEGLEFINUS;

EID: 79958695954     PISSN: 00221112     EISSN: 10958649     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8649.2011.02940.x     Document Type: Article

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