Ontogenetic diet shifts of prickly sculpin in the Lake Washington basin, Washington

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 136, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1801-1813

  Tabor, Roger A ^a   Warner, Eric J ^b   Fresh, Kurt L ^c   Footen, Brian A ^b   Chan, Jeffrey R ^a  

^a U S FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE   (United States)

^b Muckleshoot Indian Tribe   (United States)

^c NORTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUSTACEAN; DIETARY SHIFT; FOOD WEB; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; HABITAT TYPE; HABITAT USE; ONTOGENY; PERCIFORM; PREY PREFERENCE; PREY SIZE; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SALMONID;

CEDAR RIVER [IOWA-MINNESOTA]; LAKE WASHINGTON; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

AMPHIPODA; ASTACOIDEA; COTTIDAE; COTTUS ASPER; LAMPETRA; ONCORHYNCHUS; ONCORHYNCHUS NERKA; PETROMYZONTIDAE; SPIRINCHUS; SPIRINCHUS THALEICHTHYS;

EID: 38349045329     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T06-031.1     Document Type: Article

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