Resource use by larval and early juvenile native fishes in the little Colorado River, Grand Canyon, Arizona

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 127, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 620-629

  Childs, Michael R ^a   Clarkson, Robert W ^a,b   Robinson, Anthony T ^a  

^a ARIZONA GAME AND FISH DEPARTMENT   (United States)

^b U S BUREAU OF RECLAMATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIET; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HABITAT USE; ICHTHYOFAUNA; JUVENILE; LARVA; RIVER;

ARIZONA; LITTLE COLORADO RIVER; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; CATOSTOMIDAE; CATOSTOMUS DISCOBOLUS; CATOSTOMUS LATIPINNIS; CYPRINIDAE; GILA CYPHA; ICHTHYOFAUNA; LEUCISCUS CEPHALUS; ONCORHYNCHUS GORBUSCHA; PISCES; RHINICHTHYS OSCULUS; THALASSOMA BIFASCIATUM;

EID: 0031702825     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/1548-8659(1998)127<0620:RUBLAE>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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