Exploring ultimate hypotheses to predict diel vertical migrations in coregonid fish

Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 874-886

  Mehner, Thomas ^a   Kasprzak, Peter ^a   Hölker, Franz ^a,b  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF FRESHWATER ECOLOGY AND INLAND FISHERIES   (Germany)

^b JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVOIDANCE REACTION; DIEL MIGRATION; FISH; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENT; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; OXYGEN; PH; PLANKTIVORE; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATION RISK; SALMONID; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALIA; COREGONUS ALBULA; COREGONUS ARTEDI; COREGONUS FONTANAE; PISCES; SALMONIDAE;

EID: 34548161582     PISSN: 0706652X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/F07-067     Document Type: Article

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