Creation and maintenance of habitat downstream from a weir for the greenside darter, Etheostoma blennioides - A rare fish in Canada

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 297-308

  Bunt, Christopher M ^a   Cooke, Steven J ^a   Scott McKinley, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fecundity; Fishways; Impoundments; Microhabitat use; Migratory behaviour; Percidae; Resource partitioning; Warmwater fish passage

Indexed keywords

FISH; MICROHABITAT USE; MIGRATORY BEHAVIOUR; RIFFLE; WEIR;

CANADA, ONTARIO, GRAND RIVER;

ANHINGIDAE; ANIMALIA; CLADOPHORA; ETHEOSTOMA BLENNIOIDES; NOTURUS FLAVUS; PERCIDAE; PERCIFORMES;

EID: 0031837113     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007444811400     Document Type: Article

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