Climate-driven long-term trends in Baltic Sea oxygen concentrations and the potential consequences for eastern Baltic cod (Gadus morhua)

ICES Journal of Marine Science

Volumn 68, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2019-2028

  Hinrichsen, Hans Harald ^a   Huwer, Bastian ^b   Makarchouk, Andrejs ^c   Petereit, Christoph ^a   Schaber, Matthias ^d   Voss, Rudi ^e  

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

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c INSTITUTE OF FOOD SAFETY   (Latvia)

^d INSTITUT FÜR SEEFISCHEREI   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Baltic cod environment; climate change; condition factor; egg survival; gut evacuation; habitat utilization; juvenile settlement probability; oxygen deficiency; warming

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; BACTERIUM; CLIMATE EFFECT; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CONDITION FACTOR; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GADOID; HABITAT USE; INFLOW; JUVENILE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; SATURATION; SETTLING BEHAVIOR; SOLUBILITY; SPAWNING; SURVIVAL; TREND ANALYSIS; WARMING; WATER MASS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GADUS CALLARIAS; GADUS MORHUA;

EID: 80054104260     PISSN: 10543139     EISSN: 10959289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fsr145     Document Type: Article

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