Competition between larval fishes in reservoirs: The role of relative timing of appearance

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 127, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1021-1039

  Garvey, James E ^a,b   Stein, Roy A ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FISH; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION;

DOROSOMA CEPEDIANUM; DOROSOMA PETENENSE; LEPOMIS MACROCHIRUS;

EID: 0032448782     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/1548-8659(1998)127<1021:CBLFIR>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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