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Structure and dynamics of populations of bream Abramis brama inhabiting water bodies of Eastern Europe of different types are investigated. With the consideration of the original and published data, the following issues are analyzed in populations from the southern part of the area (water bodies of Moldova) and from the central and northwestern areas of the European part of Russia: age composition, sex ratio, males and females growth in size and weight, and age of maturation. Over the area, all transitions from short-cycle populations to average-cycle and long-cycle populations are observed. The maximum longevity of their specimens attains 9, 15, and 26 years, respectively. The growth rate of bream is controlled by a combination of average temperature, duration of vegetation season, size of water body, number of trophic niches for various size-weight groups, multiple change of the kind of feeding in ontogenesis, and general availability of food for adults. From the north to the south the variation of maturation age and of the rate of size and weight growth increase.
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Original Russian Text © M.I. Shatunovskii, Yu.Yu. Dgebuadze, A.E. Bobyrev, E.L. Sokolova, M.A. Usatîi, O.I. Crepis, A.M. Usatîi, A.S. Cebanu, 2009, published in Voprosy Ikhtiologii, 2009, Vol. 49, No. 4, pp. 495–507.
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Shatunovskii, M.I., Dgebuadze, Y.Y., Bobyrev, A.E. et al. Some regularities of population structure and dynamics variability in bream Abramis brama in water bodies of Eastern Europe. J. Ichthyol. 49, 503–515 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0032945209070030
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