Spatial and temporal density dependence regulates the condition of central Baltic Sea clupeids: Compelling evidence using an extensive international acoustic survey

Population Ecology

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 511-523

  Casini, Michele ^a   Kornilovs, Georgs ^b   Cardinale, Massimiliano ^a   Möllmann, Christian ^c   Grygiel, Wlodzimierz ^d   Jonsson, Patrik ^a   Raid, Tiit ^e   Flinkman, Juha ^f   Feldman, Valeriy ^g  

^a INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Sweden)

^b INSTITUTE OF FOOD SAFETY   (Latvia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^d NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^f FINNISH ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^g Atlantic Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography AtlantNIRO   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Body size; Herring Clupea harengus; Hydro climate; Population density; Spatio temporal changes; Sprat Sprattus sprattus

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SURVEY; BODY SIZE; CLUPEOID; DATA SET; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXPLOITATION; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREDATOR; SALINITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA;

CLUPEA HARENGUS; CLUPEIDAE; SPRATTUS SPRATTUS;

EID: 79961025900     PISSN: 14383896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10144-011-0269-2     Document Type: Article

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