A model of habitat selection by drift-feeding stream salmonids at different scales

Ecology

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 281-294

  Hughes, Nicholas F ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Competition; Distribution pattern; Foraging model; Growth physiology; Habitat selection; Invertebrate drift; Salmo trutta; Size gradient; Stream salmonid; Temperature; Thymallus arcticus

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FISH; HABITAT SELECTION; MODEL; STREAM;

ANIMALIA; INVERTEBRATA; SALMO TRUTTA; SALMONIDAE; SALMONIFORMES; THYMALLUS ARCTICUS;

EID: 0031702841     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(1998)079[0281:AMOHSB]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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