Identifying sciaenid critical spawning habitats by the use of passive acoustics

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 137, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 576-605

  Luczkovich, Joseph J ^a   Pullinger, R Christopher ^b   Johnson, Stephen E ^a   Sprague, Mark W ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b 943 Washington Square Mall   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BIOACOUSTICS; CAPTIVE POPULATION; FISHERY SURVEY; HYDROPHONE; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; MATE ATTRACTION; SPAWNING GROUND; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS;

NORTH AMERICA; NORTH CAROLINA; PAMLICO SOUND; UNITED STATES;

BAIRDIELLA CHRYSOURA; CYNOSCION NEBULOSUS; PISCES; SCIAENIDAE; SCIAENOPS; SCIAENOPS OCELLATUS;

EID: 43449104716     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T05-290.1     Document Type: Article

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