Quantifying responses to hybrid striped bass predation across multiple trophic levels: Implications for reservoir biomanipulation

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 125, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 491-504

  Dettmers, John M ^a,c   Devries, Dennis R ^b   Stein, Roy A ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMANIPULATION; GIZZARD SHAD; HYBRID STRIPED BASS; RESERVOIR; STRIPED BASS; TROPHIC INTERACTION;

DOROSOMA CEPEDIANUM; MORONE CHRYSOPS; MORONE SAXATILIS; AVES; CHRYSOPS; CRUSTACEA; DOROSOMATINAE; PISCES;

EID: 0030299187     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/1548-8659(1996)125<0491:QRTHSB>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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