Seasonal and ontogenic shifts in microhabitat selection by fishes in the shallow waters of the Detroit River, a large connecting channel

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 136, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 155-166

  Lapointe, Nicolas W R ^a   Corkum, Lynda D ^a   Mandrak, Nicholas E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

^b GREAT LAKES LABORATORY FOR FISHERIES AND AQUATIC SCIENCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPTH; HABITAT SELECTION; HETEROGENEITY; MICROHABITAT; ONTOGENY; PERCIFORM; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PREDATION RISK; SEASONAL VARIATION; SHALLOW WATER; SIZE EFFECT;

DETROIT RIVER; NORTH AMERICA;

APOLLONIA MELANOSTOMUS; CENTRARCHIDAE; CYPRINELLA SPILOPTERA; PISCES;

EID: 33847394885     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T05-235.1     Document Type: Article

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