Influences of temperature and oxygen upon habitat selection by bullfrog tadpoles and three species of freshwater fishes in two Alabama strip mine ponds

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 416, Issue , 1999, Pages 149-162

  Ultsch, Gordon R ^a   Reese, Scott A ^a   Nie, Minghua ^a   Crim, Jay D ^a   Smith, Walter H ^a   LeBerte, Cheré M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological limnology; Critical oxygen tension; Habitat selection; Lepomis macrochirus; Metabolic rate; Notemigonus crysoleucas; Pimephales promelus; Rana catesbeiana

Indexed keywords

DISSOLVED OXYGEN; FISH; FROG; HABITAT SELECTION; LARVA; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

UNITED STATES;

LEPOMIS MACROCHIRUS;

EID: 0033495279     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1003867504821     Document Type: Article

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