Summer food limitation reduces brook and rainbow trout biomass in a southern appalachian stream

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 119, Issue 5, 1990, Pages 894-901

  Ensign, William E ^a,c   Strange, Richard J ^a   Moore, Stephen E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b Great Smoky Mountains National Park   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0000509889     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/1548-8659(1990)119[0894:SFLRBA]2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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