Does larval mortality influence population dynamics? An analysis of North Sea herring (Clupea harengus) time series

Fisheries Oceanography

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 530-543

  Fässler, Sascha M M ^a   Payne, Mark R ^b   Brunel, Thomas ^a   Dickey Collas, Mark ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Critical period; Herring; Larval mortality; North Sea; Recruitment

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; CLUPEOID; COHORT ANALYSIS; DATA SET; GROWTH MODELING; HATCHING; LARVA; LIFE TABLE; MORTALITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION SIZE; RECONSTRUCTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPAWNING; TIME SERIES; WATER TEMPERATURE;

SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

CLUPEA HARENGUS; CLUPEIDAE;

EID: 80054697256     PISSN: 10546006     EISSN: 13652419     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2419.2011.00600.x     Document Type: Article

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