Reproductive success of sympatric northern pike and muskellunge in an upper St. Lawrence river bay

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 130, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 796-808

  Farrell, John M ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SPAWNING GROUND; WATER LEVEL;

CANADA;

ESOX LUCIUS; ESOX MASQUINONGY; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0034878508     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/1548-8659(2001)130<0796:RSOSNP>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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