Recruitment processes in Baltic sprat - A re-evaluation of GLOBEC Germany hypotheses

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 107, Issue , 2012, Pages 61-79

  Voss, Rüdiger ^a,d   Peck, Myron A ^b   Hinrichsen, Hans Harald ^a   Clemmesen, Catriona ^a   Baumann, Hannes ^b,e   Stepputtis, Daniel ^a,f   Bernreuther, Matthias ^b,g   Schmidt, Jörn O ^a,f   Temming, Axel ^b   Köster, Fritz W ^c  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^e STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f THÜNEN INSTITUTE OF CLIMATE SMART AGRICULTURE   (Germany)

^g INSTITUT FÜR SEEFISCHEREI   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BALTIC SEA; COASTAL AREA; COASTAL HABITATS; EARLY LIFE; FEED-BACK LOOP; FIELD SAMPLING; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD WEBS; INTEGRATED RESEARCH; INTERANNUAL; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LIFE PHASE; LIFE STAGES; MODELING STUDIES; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; RE-EVALUATION; RECRUITMENT PROCESS; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; RESEARCH PROGRAMS; ROBUST PROJECTION; STOCK SIZE; SURFACE CURRENT; TOP-DOWN CONTROL; TOPDOWN; TRANSPORT DYNAMICS; VERTICAL MIGRATION; WATER CIRCULATION; YEAR-CLASS STRENGTH;

COASTAL ZONES; ECOLOGY;

DYNAMICS;

COASTAL EVOLUTION; FIELD METHOD; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; LIFE HISTORY; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); RESEARCH WORK; SAMPLING; SPAWNING; TRANSPORT PROCESS; WIND-DRIVEN CIRCULATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; EASTERN REGION [OMAN]; GERMANY; OMAN; SUR LAGOON;

SPRATTUS SPRATTUS; SPRATTUS SPRATTUS BALTICUS;

EID: 84870238861     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2012.05.003     Document Type: Article

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