Food Habits of Smallmouth Bass, Walleyes, and Northern Pikeminnow in the Lower Columbia River Basin during Outmigration of Juvenile Anadromous Salmonids

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 128, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1036-1054

  Zimmerman, Mark P ^a  

^a OREGON DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND WILDLIFE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIET; MIGRATION; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SPATIAL VARIATION;

COLUMBIA RIVER; SNAKE RIVER; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON;

ANIMALIA; ASTACOIDEA; CATOSTOMIDAE; COTTIDAE; CYPRINIDAE; MICROPTERUS DOLOMIEU; ONCORHYNCHUS; PERCIFORMES; PERCOPSIDAE; PTYCHOCHEILUS OREGONENSIS; SALMONIDAE; SERPENTES; STIZOSTEDION VITREUM;

EID: 0033388065     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/1548-8659(1999)128<1036:FHOSBW>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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