River discharge drives survival of larval walleye

Ecological Applications

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 88-103

  Mion, Joseph B ^a,b   Stein, Roy A ^a   Marschall, Elizabeth A ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Inland Fisheries Research Unit   (United States)

Author keywords

Lake Erie; Larval transport; Larval walleye; Maumee River; Ontogeny; Otoliths; Recruitment; River discharge; River zooplankton; Sandusky River; Sport fish; Stizostedion vitreum

Indexed keywords

FISH LARVA; RIVER DISCHARGE; SURVIVAL; WALLEYE;

GREAT LAKES; LAKE ERIE; MAUMEE RIVER; OHIO; SANDUSKY RIVER; USA;

STIZOSTEDION VITREUM;

EID: 0031881959     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(1998)008[0088:RDDSOL]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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