Tracking nursery habitat use in the York River estuary, Virginia, by young American shad using stable isotopes

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 136, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1285-1297

  Hoffman, J C ^a,b   Bronk, D A ^a   Olney, J E ^a  

^a VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUPEOID; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; HABITAT USE; MIGRATION; MODELING; NURSERY GROUND; STABLE ISOTOPE;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; VIRGINIA; YORK RIVER;

ALOSA SAPIDISSIMA;

EID: 35848969789     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T06-223.1     Document Type: Article

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