The effects of abiotic factors and intraspecific versus interspecific competition on the diel activity patterns of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) fry

Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Volumn 65, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1545-1553

  Blanchet, Simon ^a   Loot, Géraldine ^b   Bernatchez, Louis ^a   Dodson, Julian J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY PATTERN; ENVIRONMENTAL CUE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GROWTH RATE; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; INVASIVE SPECIES; NATIVE SPECIES; PREDATION; SALMONID; TWILIGHT; WATER TEMPERATURE;

INVERTEBRATA; ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS; SALMO SALAR;

EID: 48949103350     PISSN: 0706652X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/F08-079     Document Type: Article

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