Diet of first-feeding larval and young-of-the-year white sturgeon in the lower Columbia River

Northwest Science

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 25-33

  Muir, William D ^a   McCabe Jr , George T ^a   Parsley, Michael J ^b   Hinton, Susan A ^a  

^a ALASKA FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b WESTERN FISHERIES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; DIET; JUVENILE; LARVA; PREY SELECTION;

UNITED STATES;

ACIPENSER TRANSMONTANUS; COROPHIUM;

EID: 0034128084     PISSN: 0029344X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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