Spawning and Associated Movement Patterns of Gulf Sturgeon in the Pascagoula River Drainage, Mississippi

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 133, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 221-230

  Heise, Ryan J ^a,c   Slack, William T ^b   Ross, Stephen T ^a   Dugo, Mark A ^a  

^a The University of Southern Mississippi   (United States)

^b Mississippi Museum Natural Science   (United States)

^c North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY PATTERN; BIOTELEMETRY; HABITAT SELECTION; HABITAT STRUCTURE; HOMING BEHAVIOR; MOVEMENT; SPAWNING GROUND;

MISSISSIPPI; NORTH AMERICA; PASCAGOULA RIVER; UNITED STATES;

ACIPENSER; ACIPENSER OXYRHYNCHUS DESOTOI; ACIPENSER OXYRINCHUS; ANIMALIA; OXYRHYNCHUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0842307301     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T02-107     Document Type: Article

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