Seasonal and Geographic Variation in Juvenile Pink Salmon Diets in the Northern Gulf of Alaska and Prince William Sound

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 132, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1035-1052

  Boldt, Jennifer L ^a,b   Haldorson, Lewis J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b NOAA Alaska Fisheries Science Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIET; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; PREY AVAILABILITY; SALMONID; SEASONAL VARIATION; SURVIVAL;

GULF OF ALASKA; UNITED STATES;

AMPHIPODA; APPENDICULARIA (CLASS); BIVALVIA; CLIO; COPEPODA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); EUPHAUSIIDAE; GASTROPODA; HYPERIIDAE; LIMACINA; ONCORHYNCHUS GORBUSCHA; PTEROPODA; SALMONIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0242485467     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T02-091     Document Type: Article

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