Bimodal size distributions in Arctic char, Salvelinus alpinus: Artefacts of biased sampling

Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Volumn 60, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1104-1110

  Finstad, Anders Gravbrøt ^a   Jansen, Peder Andreas ^b,d   Hirvonen, Heikki ^c  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d Dept N 0032   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; BIMODAL ASSOCIATION; POPULATION SIZE; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

SALVELINUS; SALVELINUS ALPINUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0346816647     PISSN: 0706652X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/f03-089     Document Type: Article

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