Regulation of an unexploited brown trout population in Spruce Creek, Pennsylvania

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 135, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 943-954

  Carline, Robert F ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; DISCHARGE; GROWTH RATE; MORTALITY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION REGULATION; RECRUITMENT; SALMONID; STREAM;

NORTH AMERICA; PENNSYLVANIA; SPRUCE CREEK [PENNSYLVANIA]; UNITED STATES;

PICEA; SALMO TRUTTA;

EID: 33845631523     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T05-028.1     Document Type: Article

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