Winter short-distance migration of juvenile fish between two floodplain water bodies of the Lower River Rhine

Ecology of Freshwater Fish

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 161-168

  Heermann, Lisa ^a   Borcherding, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Diel migration; Food availability; Light intensity; Predation risk; Rutilus rutilus; Shoaling of juvenile fishes

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL; DIURNAL ACTIVITY; FISH; FLOODPLAIN; LAKE; MIGRATION; SEASONAL VARIATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; LOWER RHINE BASIN; RHINE BASIN;

PISCES; RUTILUS RUTILUS;

EID: 33744818218     PISSN: 09066691     EISSN: 16000633     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0633.2006.00132.x     Document Type: Article

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