Bridging the energy gap: Anadromous blueback herring feeding in the Hudson and Mohawk rivers, New York

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 136, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1614-1621

  Simonin, Paul W ^a   Limburg, Karin E ^a   Machut, Leonard S ^a,b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANADROMY; BIOENERGETICS; CLUPEOID; FITNESS; FOOD CONSUMPTION; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; SPAWNING POPULATION; STABLE ISOTOPE; STOMACH CONTENT;

HUDSON RIVER; MOHAWK RIVER; NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ALOSA AESTIVALIS; BAETIDAE; CHIRONOMIDAE; CLUPEIDAE; EPHEMERIDAE; HEXAPODA;

EID: 38349029297     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T06-161.1     Document Type: Article

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