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The ecology of gadid fishes in the circumpolar Arctic with a special emphasis on the polar cod (Boreogadus saida)

POLAR BIOLOGY (2016)

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POLAR BIOLOGY

Volume 39, Issue 6, Pages 961-967

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SPRINGER

DOI: 10.1007/s00300-016-1965-3

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