Examining similarities and differences between congeners: Do larval gizzard shad and threadfin shad act as ecologically equivalent units?

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 127, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1006-1020

  Armstrong, David L ^a,b   Devries, Dennis R ^a   Harman, Chris ^a,c   Bayne, David R ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Game and Fish Division   (United States)

^c Ala Dept of Environmental Management   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FISH; FUNCTIONAL ROLE; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION; LARVA; MORPHOLOGY;

DIAPHANOSOMA; DOROSOMA CEPEDIANUM; DOROSOMA PETENENSE;

EID: 0032465716     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/1548-8659(1998)127<1006:ESADBC>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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