Environmental change drives long-term recruitment and growth variation in an estuarine fish

Global Change Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1844-1860

  Morrongiello, John R ^a   Walsh, Chris T ^b   Gray, Charles A ^c   Stocks, Jerom R ^b   Crook, David A ^d  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b NSW DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES   (Australia)

^c SYDNEY INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

^d CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate change; Density dependence; Drought; Hierarchical model; Hydrology; Life history; Macquaria colonorum; Otolith biochronology; Percichthyidae; Primary and secondary production; Zero inflated negative binomial mixed model

Indexed keywords

BIOCHRONOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DROUGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM; FISH; GROWTH RATE; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; JUVENILE; LIFE HISTORY; POPULATION DENSITY; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SPAWNING;

AUSTRALIA;

MACQUARIA COLONORUM; PERCICHTHYIDAE; PISCES;

ANIMAL; AUSTRALIA; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENT; ESTUARY; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALE; PERCIFORMES; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASON; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALS; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENT; ESTUARIES; FEMALE; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PERCIFORMES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASONS; TEMPERATURE; VICTORIA;

EID: 84900022271     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12545     Document Type: Article

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