Do Endangered Razorback Suckers Have Poor Larval Escape Performance Relative to Introduced Rainbow Trout?

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 132, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1166-1178

  Wesp, Heather M ^a   Gibb, Alice C ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; INTRODUCED SPECIES; PREDATION; SALMONID;

UNITED STATES;

CATOSTOMIDAE; MYKISS; ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS; PISCES; SALMONIDAE; XYRAUCHEN; XYRAUCHEN TEXANUS;

EID: 0242485371     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T02-069     Document Type: Article

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