The impact of physical and biological factors on the drift and spatial distribution of larval sprat: A comparison of the Baltic and North Seas

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 107, Issue , 2012, Pages 47-60

  Hinrichsen, Hans Harald ^a   Kühn, Wilfried ^b   Peck, Myron A ^b   Voss, Rudi ^a  

^a GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BALTIC SEA; BIOLOGICAL FACTORS; BIOPHYSICAL MODEL; CO-OCCURRENCE; CONVERGENCE ZONES; ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY; ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABILITY; FRONTAL AREAS; GROWTH PERFORMANCE; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; LARVAL FEEDING; LARVAL FISHES; LARVAL GROWTH; LARVAL SPRAT; LARVAL TRANSPORTS; MODEL SIMULATION; NORTH SEA; SOURCE REGION; TEMPORAL DIFFERENCES; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEMS; MIXING;

SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

CLUPEOID; DRIFT BEHAVIOR; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GROWTH RATE; HYDRODYNAMICS; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; LARVAL TRANSPORT; SPAWNING GROUND; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; NORTH SEA;

SPRATTUS SPRATTUS;

EID: 84870235581     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2012.05.004     Document Type: Article

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