Selection of estuarine nursery habitats by wild-caught and hatchery-reared juvenile red drum in laboratory mesocosms

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 305-313

  Stunz, Gregory W ^a   Levin, Phillip S ^b   Minello, Thomas J ^a  

^a NOAA Fisheries Service Galveston Laboratory   (United States)

^b NORTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Fish; Habitat preference; Habitat selection; Predation; Recruitment; Sciaenops ocellatus

Indexed keywords

CAPTIVE POPULATION; ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM; HABITAT SELECTION; JUVENILE; NURSERY GROUND; PREDATION RISK; WILD POPULATION;

EID: 0034917571     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1010874629788     Document Type: Article

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