First-year growth and recruitment of coastal largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides): Spatial patterns unresolved by critical periods along a salinity gradient

Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Volumn 63, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1911-1924

  Peer, Adam C ^a,b   DeVries, Dennis R ^a   Wright, Russell A ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGETICS; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; FOOD CONSUMPTION; GROWTH RATE; HATCHING DATE; ISOLATED POPULATION; PISCIVORY; SALINITY; SALMONID; SUBPOPULATION;

ALABAMA; MOBILE-TENSAW DELTA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

MICROPTERUS SALMOIDES; PISCES;

EID: 33751048558     PISSN: 0706652X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/F06-089     Document Type: Article

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