Application of stable isotope techniques to trophic studies of age-0 smallmouth bass

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 127, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 729-739

  Vander Zanden, M Jake ^a   Hulshof, Menno ^a   Ridgway, Mark S ^b   Rasmussen, Joseph B ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ONTARIO MINISTRY OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE CLASS; DIET; FISH; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; TROPHIC STATUS;

CANADA;

ANIMALIA; MICROPTERUS DOLOMIEU; PERCIFORMES;

EID: 0031774945     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/1548-8659(1998)127<0729:AOSITT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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