Vertical distribution and growth performance of Baltic cod larvae - Field evidence for starvation-induced recruitment regulation during the larval stage?

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 91, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 382-396

  Huwer, Bastian ^a,c   Clemmesen, Catriona ^b   Grønkjær, Peter ^c   Köster, Friedrich W ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

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

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT ENVIRONMENT; BALTIC SEA; COPEPOD SPECIES; FOOD AVAILABILITY; GROWTH PERFORMANCE; HIGH POTENTIAL; HIGHER FREQUENCIES; LARVAL FISHES; LARVAL GROWTH; LARVAL STAGE; LOWER FREQUENCIES; NUTRITIONAL CONDITIONS; PREY SPECIES; PSEUDOCALANUS; SAVE ENERGY; SIZE CLASS; SPECIFIC GROWTH RATE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT; UPPER LAYER; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; VERTICAL MIGRATION;

EMPLOYMENT; RNA;

ECOLOGY;

ESTIMATION METHOD; FOOD AVAILABILITY; GADOID; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GROWTH RATE; HATCHING; LARVA; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; ONTOGENY; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; PREY AVAILABILITY; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SURVIVAL; THERMOCLINE; TRADE-OFF; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION; VERTICAL MIGRATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA;

COPEPODA; GADUS CALLARIAS; PSEUDOCALANUS ACUSPES;

EID: 79960513938     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2011.04.001     Document Type: Article

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