Ontogenetic behavior and migration of Volga River Russian sturgeon, Acipenser gueldenstaedtii, with a note on adaptive significance of body color

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 411-421

  Kynard, Boyd ^a   Zhuang, Ping ^a,b   Zhang, Longzhen ^b   Zhang, Tao ^b   Zhang, Zheng ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b SOUTH CHINA SEA FISHERIES RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (China)

Author keywords

Acipenseriformes; Dispersal; Early life history; Sturgeon biogeography; Sturgeon habitat

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BIOGEOGRAPHY; COLOR; FISH; MIGRATION; ONTOGENY;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; VOLGA RIVER; WORLD;

ACIPENSER; ACIPENSER GUELDENSTAEDTII; ACIPENSERIFORMES; SCAPHIRHYNCHUS;

EID: 0037930120     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021121900207     Document Type: Article

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