Stickleback increase in the Baltic Sea - A thorny issue for coastal predatory fish

Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science

Volumn 163, Issue PB, 2015, Pages 134-142

  Bergström, Ulf ^a   Olsson, Jens ^a   Casini, Michele ^a   Eriksson, Britas Klemens ^b   Fredriksson, Ronny ^a   Wennhage, Håkan ^a   Appelberg, Magnus ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Age length relationships; Baltic Sea; Migrations; Population dynamics; Predator prey interactions; Three spined stickleback

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AGE-RELATED DIFFERENCE; COASTAL WATER; EUTROPHICATION; FOOD WEB; HABITAT TYPE; LIFE CYCLE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MIGRATION; MONITORING; POPULATION ECOLOGY; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPAWNING; TELEOST;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; BOTHNIAN SEA; GULF OF BOTHNIA;

GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 84936768460     PISSN: 02727714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecss.2015.06.017     Document Type: Article

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