The effect of predation by wintering cormorants Phalacrocorax carbo on grayling Thymallus thymallus and trout (Salmonidae) populations: Two case studies from Swiss rivers. Reply

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 611-616

  Suter, Werner ^a,b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b WSL Swiss Federal Institute for Forest Snow and Landscape Research   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Angling pressure; Competition; Density dependence; Fish; River fisheries

Indexed keywords

DENSITY DEPENDENCE; FISH; POPULATION DECLINE; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; RECRUITMENT;

SWITZERLAND;

PHALACROCORAX CARBO; THYMALLUS THYMALLUS;

EID: 0032416675     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2664.1998.3540611.x     Document Type: Review

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