The effects of growth, predation, and first-winter mortality on recruitment of bluegill cohorts

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 132, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 346-360

  Santucci, Victor J ^a,b   Wahl, David H ^b  

^a Max McGraw Wildlife Foundation   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FISH; GROWTH; MORTALITY; PREDATION; RECRUITMENT;

UNITED STATES;

LEPOMIS; LEPOMIS MACROCHIRUS; MICROPTERUS; MICROPTERUS SALMOIDES; PISCES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037358168     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/1548-8659(2003)132<0346:TEOGPA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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