The Behavioural Flexibility of Salmon Growth

Atlantic Salmon Ecology

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 145-169

  Forseth, Torbjørn ^a   Letcher, Benjamin H ^b   Johansen, Morten ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Another distinct pattern of atlantic salmon growth the seasonal pattern; Atlantic salmon growth and patterns of atlantic salmon growth; Atlantic salmon, and massive variation in growth in freshwater and marine environments; Atlantic salmon, massive variation in growth patterns and allometric, genotypic, maternal and environmental sources of variation; Conceptual framework, for behaviourally driven differences in freshwater and marine growth; Growth models, valuable tools in almost any aspect of science and management of atlantic salmon; Growth of atlantic salmon environmentally sensitive and closely linked to fitness; Population or individual differences in growth rates sources of variation in size at age; Salmon growth behavioural flexibility; Somatic growth, closely linked to fitness in fishes through its effect on mortality risk

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861375195     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444327755.ch6     Document Type: Chapter

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