Difference in channel catfish growth among Mississippi stream basins

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 135, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1224-1229

  Shephard, Samuel ^a,b   Jackson, Donald C ^a  

^a MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; BASIN; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FLOODPLAIN; GROWTH MODELING; GROWTH RATE; GROWTH RESPONSE; RIVER CHANNEL; SOIL FERTILITY; STREAM; TELEOST;

MISSISSIPPI BASIN; MISSISSIPPI RIVER; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ICTALURUS PUNCTATUS;

EID: 34247643148     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T05-183.1     Document Type: Article

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