Trophic position and individual feeding histories of fish from Lake Okeechobee, Florida

Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 590-600

  Fry, Brian ^a,d   Mumford, Patricia L ^a   Tam, Franklin ^a   Fox, Don D ^b   Warren, Gary L ^b   Havens, Karl E ^c   Steinman, Alan D ^c  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Florida Game Fresh Water Fish Community   (United States)

^c SOUTH FLORIDA WATER MANAGEMENT DISTRICT   (United States)

^d LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ICHTHYOFAUNA; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; TROPHIC LEVEL;

FLORIDA; LAKE OKEECHOBEE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032797805     PISSN: 0706652X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/f98-204     Document Type: Article

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