Rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss WALBAUM) as a potential natural "drift sampler" in a tropical lotic ecosystem

Limnologica

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 245-254

  Mathooko, Jude Mutuku ^a,b  

^a EGERTON UNIVERSITY   (Kenya)

^b ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

Author keywords

Diet; Drift sampler; Faunal drift; Rainbow trout

Indexed keywords

ARACHNIDA; BAETIS; CHOROTERPES; COLEOPTERA; DIPTERA; EPHEMEROPTERA; HEMIPTERA; HYMENOPTERA; MYKISS; ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS; SALMONIDAE; TANYPODINAE; TRICHOPTERA; TURBELLARIA; SIMULIUM;

DIET; DRIFT SAMPLER; INVERTEBRATE DRIFT; RAINBOW TROUT;

KENYA, NARO PROVINCE, MORU RIVER;

EID: 0030428986     PISSN: 00759511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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