Spatio-temporal dynamics of growth and survival of Lesser Sandeel early life-stages in the North Sea: Predictions from a coupled individual-based and hydrodynamic-biogeochemical model

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 250, Issue , 2013, Pages 294-306

  Gurkan, Zeren ^a   Christensen, Asbjørn ^a   Maar, Marie ^b   Møller, Eva Friis ^b   Madsen, Kristine Skovgaard ^c   Munk, Peter ^a   Mosegaard, Henrik ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^c DANISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Continuous Plankton Recorder; Growth and survival; Individual based model; Lesser Sandeel; North Sea; Spatial dynamics

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS PLANKTON RECORDERS; INDIVIDUAL-BASED MODELS; LESSER SANDEEL; NORTH SEA; SPATIAL DYNAMICS;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; FISH; HYDRODYNAMICS; OCEAN HABITATS; OPTIMIZATION; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ECOLOGY;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; ENCOUNTER RATE; GROWTH RATE; HYDRODYNAMICS; INDIVIDUAL VARIATION; INDIVIDUAL-BASED MODEL; JUVENILE; LARVA; MORTALITY; PERCIFORM; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION; PREY AVAILABILITY; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SPATIAL VARIATION; SURVIVAL; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VERTICAL MIGRATION; ZOOPLANKTON;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA;

AMMODYTES MARINUS;

EID: 84871413251     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2012.11.009     Document Type: Article

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