Diet of stocked and wild trout, Salmo trutta: Is there competition for resources?

Folia Zoologica

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 61-73

  Teixeira, Amílcar ^a   Cortes, Rui M V ^b  

^a INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO DE BRAGANÇA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRÁS OS MONTES AND ALTO DOURO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Brown trout; Feeding; Intraspecific competition; Stocking

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ORGANISM; BENTHOS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; HABITAT CONSERVATION; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; SURFACE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; PORTUGAL; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

ARTHROPODA; BAETIDAE; CHIRONOMIDAE; DIPTERA; EPHEMEROPTERA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; SALMO TRUTTA; SALMONIDAE; TRICHOPTERA;

EID: 33646351551     PISSN: 01397893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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