Predation of threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) on the eggs of Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus) in a Baltic Sea lagoon

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 578-587

  Kotterba, Paul ^a   Kühn, Carsten ^b   Hammer, Cornelius ^a   Polte, Patrick ^a  

^a THÜNEN INSTITUTE OF BALTIC SEA FISHERIES   (Germany)

^b State Research Center for Agriculture and Fisheries Mecklenburg Vorpommern Institute for Fisheries   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BREEDING SEASON; CLUPEOID; COASTAL LAGOON; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EGG PREDATION; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MORTALITY; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); STOMACH CONTENT; TELEOST;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA;

EID: 84895884334     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2014.59.2.0578     Document Type: Article

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