Winter temperature and food quality affect age at maturity: An experimental test with Atlantic salmon (salmo salar)

Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Volumn 69, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1817-1826

  Jonsson, Bror ^a   Finstad, Anders G ^a   Jonsson, Nina ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE AT MATURITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DIET; ECTOTHERMY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FIELD SURVEY; FOOD QUALITY; GROWTH RATE; SALMONID; SEAWATER; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

SALMO SALAR;

EID: 84869207368     PISSN: 0706652X     EISSN: 12057533     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/f2012-108     Document Type: Article

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