Salinity gradient of the Baltic sea limits the reproduction and population expansion of the newly invaded comb jelly Mnemiopsis leidyi

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Jaspers, Cornelia ^a   Møller, Lene Friis ^b   Kiørboe, Thomas ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b GÖTEBORG UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BALTIC SEA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CTENOPHORA; EGG PRODUCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FERTILITY; GEOGRAPHY; GROWTH RATE; MNEMIOPSIS LEIDYI; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DISPERSAL; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION RESEARCH; REPRODUCTION; SALINITY; ZOOPLANKTON; ANIMAL; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEA;

ANIMALIA; CTENOPHORA (COELENTERATES); MNEMIOPSIS LEIDYI;

ANIMALS; CTENOPHORA; OCEANS AND SEAS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; SALINITY;

EID: 80052057134     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0024065     Document Type: Article

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