High mortality of Pacific oysters in a cold winter in the North-Frisian Wadden Sea

Helgoland Marine Research

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 525-532

  Büttger, Heike ^a   Nehls, Georg ^a   Witte, Sophia ^a  

^a BioConsult SH ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Crassostrea gigas; Ice winter; Mortality; Wadden Sea

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; BIVALVE; DOMINANCE; MORTALITY; OCEAN BASIN; POPULATION DENSITY; WATER TEMPERATURE; WINTER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA; WADDEN SEA;

CRASSOSTREA GIGAS; MYTILUS EDULIS; OSTREIDAE;

EID: 81155130933     PISSN: 1438387X     EISSN: 14383888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10152-011-0272-1     Document Type: Article

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