A laboratory examination of water velocity and substrate preference by age-0 gulf sturgeons

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 126, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 330-333

  Chan, Matthew D ^a,b   Dibble, Eric D ^a,c   Kilgore, K Jack ^a  

^a WATERWAYS EXPERIMENT STATION   (United States)

^b Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences ^*  (United States)

^c MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDANGERED FISH; GUF STURGEON; HABITAT SELECTION; MICROHABITAT; SUBSTRATE PREFERENCE; WATER VELOCITY;

ACIPENSER; ACIPENSER OXYRHYNCHUS DESOTOI; ACIPENSER OXYRINCHUS; ACIPENSER OXYRINCHUS DESOTOI; ACIPENSERIDAE;

EID: 0030815558     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/1548-8659(1997)126<0330:ALEOWV>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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