Factors affecting recruitment of young Colorado pikeminnow: Synthesis of predation experiments, field studies, and individual-based modeling

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 135, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1722-1742

  Bestgen, K R ^a   Beyers, D W ^a,d   Rice, J A ^b   Haines, G B ^c  

^a Colorado State University ^*  (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Colorado River Fishery Project ^*  (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYPRINID; LIFE HISTORY; MESOCOSM; MODELING; MORTALITY; PREDATION; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; RECRUITMENT; SURVIVORSHIP;

COLORADO; GREEN BASIN; GREEN RIVER; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; UTAH;

CYPRINELLA LUTRENSIS; PTYCHOCHEILUS LUCIUS;

EID: 34247589391     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T05-171.1     Document Type: Article

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