Estimating consumption rates of juvenile sandbar sharks (Carcharhinus plumbeus) in Chesapeake Bay, Virginia, using a bioenergetics model

Fishery Bulletin

Volumn 104, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 332-342

  Dowd, W Wesley ^a,b   Brill, Richard W ^a   Bushnell, Peter G ^c   Musick, John A ^a  

^a VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY SOUTH BEND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOENERGETICS; FOOD CONSUMPTION; GROWTH RATE; JUVENILE; METABOLISM; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SANDBAR; SHARK FISHERY; WATER TEMPERATURE;

CHESAPEAKE BAY; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

CARCHARHINUS PLUMBEUS; CHONDRICHTHYES; TELEOSTEI;

EID: 33745438402     PISSN: 00900656     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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