Feeding ecology of juvenile Lake Sturgeon, Acipenser fulvescens, in northern Ontario

Canadian Field-Naturalist

Volumn 112, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 459-468

  Beamish, F William H ^a   Noakes, David L G ^a   Rossiter, Andrew ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b LAKE BIWA MUSEUM   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acipenser fulvescens; Catostomus catostomus; Catostomus commersoni; Coregonus clupeaformis; Diet; Ecology; Esox lucius; Lake Sturgeon; Lake Whitefish; Longnose Sucker; Macrobenthos; Northern Pike; Ontario; Stizostedion vitreum; Walleye; White Sucker

Indexed keywords

DIET; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FISH; NICHE;

CANADA;

ACIPENSER FULVESCENS; ANIMALIA; ANNELIDA; CATOSTOMIDAE; CATOSTOMUS CATOSTOMUS; CATOSTOMUS COMMERSONI; CLADOCERA; COREGONUS CLUPEAFORMIS; DIPTERA; EPHEMEROPTERA; ESOX LUCIUS; HEXAGENIA; INVERTEBRATA; LOTA LOTA; MOLLUSCA; ODONATA; PISCES; STIZOSTEDION VITREUM; TRICHOPTERA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032419928     PISSN: 00083550     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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