Spotted sunfish habitat selection at three florida rivers and implications for minimum flows

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 137, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 454-466

  Dutterer, Andrew C ^a   Allen, Micheal S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; HABITAT SELECTION; HABITAT TYPE; HABITAT USE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PERCID; STREAMFLOW;

ANCLOTE RIVER; FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; LITTLE MANATEE RIVER; MANATEE RIVER; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

LEPOMIS PUNCTATUS;

EID: 43449085796     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T07-039.1     Document Type: Article

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