Littoral fish assemblages of the alien-dominated Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, California, 1980-1983 and 2001-2003

Estuaries and Coasts

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 186-200

  Brown, Larry R ^a   Michniuk, Dennis ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND GAME   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC PLANT; CATCH PER UNIT EFFORT; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DELTA; FISH; INTRODUCED SPECIES; LITTORAL ENVIRONMENT; POPULATION DECLINE; SUBMERGED VEGETATION;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; SACRAMENTO-SAN JOAQUIN DELTA; UNITED STATES;

CENTRARCHIDAE; EGERIA DENSA;

EID: 34247190548     PISSN: 15592723     EISSN: 15592731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02782979     Document Type: Article

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