The effects of abiotic and biotic factors in determining larval fish growth rates: A comparison across species and reservoirs

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 129, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 835-851

  Claramunt, Randall M ^a   Wahl, David H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOTIC FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GROWTH RATE; ICHTHYOFAUNA; LARVA;

ILLINOIS; UNITED STATES;

AVES; DOROSOMA CEPEDIANUM; DOROSOMATINAE; ICHTHYOFAUNA; LEPOMIS; LEPOMIS MACROCHIRUS; PISCES; POMOXIS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0034129425     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/1548-8659(2000)129<0835:TEOAAB>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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