Associations between water quality and daily growth of juvenile shortnose and Lost River suckers in Upper Klamath Lake, Oregon

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 132, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 691-708

  Terwilliger, Mark R ^a   Markle, Douglas F ^a   Kann, Jacob ^b  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Aquatic Ecosystem Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENDEMIC SPECIES; GROWTH; GROWTH MODELING; RECRUITMENT; WATER QUALITY;

UNITED STATES;

CATOSTOMIDAE; CHASMISTES; CHASMISTES BREVIROSTRIS; DELTISTES; DELTISTES LUXATUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0041312509     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T00-172     Document Type: Article

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