Quantifying the effect of predators on endangered species using a bioenergetics approach: Caspian terns and juvenile salmonids in the Columbia River estuary

Canadian Journal of Zoology

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 250-265

  Roby, Daniel D ^a   Lyons, Donald E ^a   Craig, David P ^a,d   Collis, Ken ^b,e   Visser, G Henk ^c  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Columbia River Inter Tribal Fish C ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^d WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Real Time Research Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTUARIES; RIVERS;

BIOENERGETICS;

BIODIVERSITY;

BIOENERGETICS; ENDANGERED SPECIES; PREDATOR; SALMONID; SEABIRD;

UNITED STATES;

AVES; LARIDAE; ONCORHYNCHUS; PISCES; SALMONIDAE; STERNA; STERNA CASPIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0038056063     PISSN: 00084301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/z02-242     Document Type: Article

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