Data from: Hypoxic areas, density-dependence and food limitation drive the body condition of a heavily exploited marine fish predator ...
Investigating the factors regulating fish condition is crucial in ecology and the management of exploited fish populations. The body condition of cod (Gadus morhua) in the Baltic Sea has dramatically decreased during the past two decades, with large implications for the fishery relying on this resou...
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| Format: | Dataset |
| Language: | English |
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Dryad
2016
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.875fb https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.875fb |
| Summary: | Investigating the factors regulating fish condition is crucial in ecology and the management of exploited fish populations. The body condition of cod (Gadus morhua) in the Baltic Sea has dramatically decreased during the past two decades, with large implications for the fishery relying on this resource. Here, we statistically investigated the potential drivers of the Baltic cod condition during the past 40 years using newly compiled fishery-independent biological data and hydrological observations. We evidenced a combination of different factors operating before and after the ecological regime shift that occurred in the Baltic Sea in the early 1990s. The changes in cod condition related to feeding opportunities, driven either by density-dependence or food limitation, along the whole period investigated and to the fivefold increase in the extent of hypoxic areas in the most recent 20 years. Hypoxic areas can act on cod condition through different mechanisms related directly to species physiology, or ... : Data used in GAMsData collected during bottom trawl surveys and hydrological surveys in the central Baltic Sea, Excel file.Data.xlsx ... |
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