Climate effects on size-at-age: Growth in warming waters compensates for earlier maturity in an exploited marine fish

Global Change Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1812-1822

  Neuheimer, Anna B ^a   Grønkjær, Peter ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Climate; Fish; Fishing; Growing degree day; Growth; Length; Maturation; Production; Size; Temperature

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE EFFECT; COMMERCIAL SPECIES; COMPENSATION; FISH; FISHING; GROWTH; MATURATION; SIZE AT MATURITY; STOCK COLLAPSE; WARMING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA;

GADUS MORHUA;

EID: 84860688932     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2012.02673.x     Document Type: Article

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