Use of instream wood habitat by Trout Cod Maccullochella macquariensis (Cuvier) in the Murrumbidgee River

Pacific Conservation Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 261-265

  Growns, Ivor ^a,b   Wooden, Ian ^a   Schiller, Craig ^a  

^a NSW Fisheries   (Australia)

^b Plan/Nat Rsrc ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

Habitat availability; Habitat preference; Percichthyidae

Indexed keywords

ENDANGERED SPECIES; GADOID; HABITAT SELECTION; HABITAT USE; MICROHABITAT; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; MURRUMBIDGEE RIVER; NEW SOUTH WALES; WORLD;

GADUS MORHUA; MACCULLOCHELLA; MACCULLOCHELLA MACQUARENSIS; MACCULLOCHELLA MACQUARIENSIS; PERCICHTHYIDAE; RIPARIA; SALMONIDAE;

EID: 11144251739     PISSN: 10382097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/PC040261     Document Type: Article

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