Seasonal foraging by channel catfish on terrestrially burrowing crayfish in a floodplain-river ecosystem

Ecohydrology and Hydrobiology

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 61-70

  Flotemersch, Joseph Edward ^a,b   Jackson, Donald Calvert ^b  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Catfish; Crayfish; Decoupling; Floodplain coupling; Foraging; River inundation

Indexed keywords

CRAYFISH; FISH; FLOODPLAIN; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; PREY SELECTION; RIVER CHANNEL; SEASONAL VARIATION;

UNITED STATES;

ASTACOIDEA; CATFISH; ICTALURUS; ICTALURUS PUNCTATUS;

EID: 0038817805     PISSN: 16423593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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