First-year recruitment of largemouth bass: The interdependency of early life stages

Ecological Applications

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 1024-1038

  Ludsin, Stuart A ^a,b   Devries, Dennis R ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical period; First winter mortality; Hatch date; Iatroscan; Largemouth bass; Lipids; Micropterus salmoides; Otoliths; Prey availability; Recruitment; Size dependent survival; Triglycerides

Indexed keywords

CENTRARCHIDAE; MICROPTERUS SALMOIDES;

EID: 0030731535     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(1997)007[1024:FYROLB]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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