Modeling management scenarios and the effects of an introduced apex predator on a coastal riverine fish community

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 136, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 105-120

  Pine III, William E ^a,b   Kwak, Thomas J ^a   Rice, James A ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; FISH; INTRODUCED SPECIES; NATIVE SPECIES; PISCIVORE; PREDATOR; RIVER;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; NORTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

PISCES; PYLODICTIS; PYLODICTIS OLIVARIS;

EID: 33847370235     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T05-249.1     Document Type: Article

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