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Vertical distribution of eggs and larvae of the Baltic Sprat Sprattus sprattus balticus (Clupeidae) in relation to seasonal and diurnal variation

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Vertical distribution of eggs and larvae of the Baltic sprat Sprattus sprattus balticus was studied. Diurnal variation was revealed in the distribution of eggs of the first stage of development and larvae with a length of more than 5 mm, which is related to dynamics of spawning and vertical migrations of sprat larvae. Seasonal variation in the distribution of eggs manifested itself in: (1) widening of the range of occurrence from the zone of halocline at the beginning of spawning (winter) to the entire water column in spring-summer and (2) emergence in the surface layer in July of all stages of egg development unlike the presence from May to June mainly of the first stage of development. It is suggested that the ability of early ontogenetic stages of sprat to maintain in the surface layer depended on the extent of development of vertical gradients of density in the thermocline.

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Original Russian Text © E.M. Karaseva, V.M. Ivanovich, 2010, published in Voprosy Ikhtiologii, 2010, Vol. 50, No. 2, pp. 240–250.

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Karaseva, E.M., Ivanovich, V.M. Vertical distribution of eggs and larvae of the Baltic Sprat Sprattus sprattus balticus (Clupeidae) in relation to seasonal and diurnal variation. J. Ichthyol. 50, 259–269 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0032945210030069

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