Prey selectivity and diet of striped bass in Western Albemarle Sound, North Carolina

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 134, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1059-1074

  Rudershausen, Paul J ^a   Tuomikoski, Jack E ^a   Buckel, Jeffrey A ^a   Hightower, Joseph E ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE-RELATED DIFFERENCE; CLUPEOID; DIET; PERCIFORM; PREY SELECTION; PREY SIZE;

ALBEMARLE SOUND; NORTH AMERICA; NORTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

ACTINOPTERYGII; ALOSA; ANCHOA; ANCHOA MITCHILLI; BREVOORTIA TYRANNUS; CLUPEA HARENGUS; CLUPEIDAE; CLUPEOIDEI; MENIDIA; MORONE SAXATILIS; PERCA FLAVESCENS;

EID: 27144465970     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T04-115.1     Document Type: Article

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