Body size, diet and growth of landlocked brown trout, Salmo trutta, in the subarctic River Laxá, North-East Iceland

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 417-426

  Steingrímsson, Stefán à ^a,b   Gíslason, Gísli M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^b Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

Benthic production; Prey size; Salmonids; Stomach contents; Streams

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; DIET; GROWTH; PREY PREFERENCE; SALMONID; STOMACH CONTENT;

ICELAND;

BASOMMATOPHORA; CHIRONOMIDAE; GASTROPODA; INVERTEBRATA; LYMNAEA; RADIX PEREGRA; SALMO; SALMO TRUTTA; SALMONIDAE; SIMULIUM VITTATUM; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036238695     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1014976612970     Document Type: Article

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