Effects of Environmental Hypoxia Associated with the Annual Flood Pulse on the Distribution of Larval Sunfish and Shad in the Atchafalaya River Basin, Louisiana

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 130, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 107-116

  Fontenot, Q C ^a,b   Rutherford, D A ^a   Kelso, W E ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL CENTER   (United States)

^b CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOOD; HYPOXIA; ICHTHYOPLANKTON; ORGANIC MATTER; SWAMP;

EID: 0035003438     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/1548-8659(2001)130<0107:EOEHAW>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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