Variation in wind and piscivorous predator fields affecting the survival of Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar, in the Gulf of Maine

Fisheries Management and Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 22-35

  Friedland, K D ^a   Manning, J P ^a   Link, J S ^b   Gilbert, J R ^c   Gilbert, A T ^d   O'Connell Jr , A F ^d  

^a NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE   (United States)

^b NORTHEAST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^d PATUXENT WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate; Migration; Post smolt survival; Predation; Recruitment; Temperature

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CLIMATE VARIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MORTALITY; PELAGIC FISH; PISCIVORE; POPULATION MIGRATION; PREDATION; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SALMONID; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SURVIVAL;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MAINE;

MERLUCCIUS BILINEARIS; SALMO SALAR; SQUALIDAE; SQUALUS; SQUALUS ACANTHIAS; UROPHYCIS CHUSS;

EID: 84855338933     PISSN: 0969997X     EISSN: 13652400     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2400.2011.00814.x     Document Type: Article

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