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Multiscale influence of climate on estuarine populations of forage fish: the role of coastal upwelling, freshwater flow and temperature
- Source :
- Marine Ecology Progress Series. 425:203-215
- Publication Year :
- 2011
- Publisher :
- Inter-Research Science Center, 2011.
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Abstract
- We examined how local- and regional-scale environmental drivers affect patterns ofabundance and recruitment in 2 abundant and ecologically significant forage fishes (Pacific herring Clupea pallasi and surf smelt Hypomesus pretiosus) in the Skagit River estuary (Puget Sound, Wash-ington, USA). We identified associations between survey catch rates and environmental conditions at2 scales: within-season distributional shifts in response to local environmental conditions, and inter-annual patterns of relative year class strength related to both local- and regional-scale drivers. Usingmonthly data that spanned a 9 yr period, we found that a small proportion (
- Subjects :
- geography
geography.geographical_feature_category
Ecology
biology
Water flow
Estuary
Pacific herring
Aquatic Science
biology.organism_classification
Hypomesus pretiosus
Fishery
Sea surface temperature
Oceanography
Forage fish
Environmental science
Upwelling
Smelt
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 16161599 and 01718630
- Volume :
- 425
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Marine Ecology Progress Series
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........b6482783e5fbbf25777dc61c57f6cdfd