Enhancing percid stocking success by understanding age-0 piscivore-prey interactions in reservoirs

Ecological Applications

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1311-1329

  Donovan, Nicholas S ^a,c   Stein, Roy A ^a   White, Matthew M ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fisheries management; Gizzard shad; Growth; Ontogeny; Percidae; Piscivory; Predator prey; Recruitment; Reservoir fisheries; Sauger walleye hybrid; Saugeye; Stocking; Survival; Young of year fishes

Indexed keywords

AVES; DOROSOMA CEPEDIANUM; DOROSOMATINAE; PERCIDAE; PISCES; SAUGEYES; STIZOSTEDION CANADENSE; STIZOSTEDION VITREUM;

EID: 0000157042     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(1997)007[1311:EPSSBU]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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