A successful population of largemouth bass, Micropterus salmoides, in a subtropical lake in Mozambique

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 53-66

  Weyl, Olaf L F ^a   Hecht, Thomas ^a  

^a RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Competition; Diet; Juvenile growth; Lake Chicamba; Mortality; Otoliths; Reproduction; Von Bertalanffy growth parameters

Indexed keywords

AGE; GROWTH RATE; MORTALITY; POPULATION ECOLOGY;

MOZAMBIQUE;

ANIMALIA; MICROPTERUS SALMOIDES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032987597     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007452320609     Document Type: Article

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