Habitat and diet partitioning between shoal bass and largemouth bass in the Chipola River, Florida

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 132, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 438-449

  Wheeler, A P ^a,b   Allen, Michael S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COEXISTENCE; DIET; HABITAT USE; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; NICHE PARTITIONING;

UNITED STATES;

ASTACOIDEA; BAETIDAE; CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); EPHEMEROPTERA; ISONYCHIIDAE; MICROPTERUS CATARACTAE; MICROPTERUS SALMOIDES; PALAEMONETES; PALAEMONIDAE; PERCIFORMES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0038241807     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/1548-8659(2003)132<0438:HADPBS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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