Shelter availability affects behaviour, size-dependent and mean growth of juvenile Atlantic salmon

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1710-1718

  Finstad, A G ^a   Einum, S ^a,b   Forseth, T ^a   Ugedal, O ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Competition; Growth; Habitat restoration; Salmo salar; Substrate embeddedness

Indexed keywords

SALMO SALAR; SALMONIDAE;

EID: 34547794092     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2007.01799.x     Document Type: Article

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