Marine subsidies in freshwater ecosystems: Salmon carcasses increase the growth rates of stream-resident salmonids

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 132, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 371-381

  Wipfli, Mark S ^a   Hudson, John P ^a   Caouette, John P ^a   Chaloner, Dominic T ^b  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH RATE; NUTRITION; SALMONID;

UNITED STATES;

AMADINA FASCIATA; ONCORHYNCHUS; ONCORHYNCHUS CLARKI; ONCORHYNCHUS GORBUSCHA; ONCORHYNCHUS KISUTCH; SALMONIDAE; SALVELINUS; SALVELINUS MALMA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037360730     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/1548-8659(2003)132<0371:MSIFES>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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