Spatial analysis of North Sea cod recruitment: Concurrent effects of changes in spawning stock biomass, temperature and herring abundance

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 480, Issue , 2013, Pages 263-275

  Hjermann, Dag Ø ^a   Fisher, Jonathan A D ^b   Rouyer, Tristan ^a   Frank, Kenneth T ^c   Stenseth, Nils C ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^c BEDFORD INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Canada)

^d INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Cultivation effect; Ecosystem dynamics; Interspecific interaction; Predator prey reversal; Spatial heterogeneity; Warming

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOMASS; CLUPEOID; DOMINANCE; ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS; GADOID; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; LOW TEMPERATURE; OVERFISHING; POPULATION DECLINE; PREDATION; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TRAWLING; WARMING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GERMAN BIGHT; NORTH SEA;

CLUPEA HARENGUS; CLUPEIDAE; GADUS MORHUA;

EID: 84876854122     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps10315     Document Type: Article

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