Estuarine recruitment, growth, and first-year survival of juvenile red drum in North Carolina

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 137, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1089-1103

  Stewart, Christopher B ^a,b   Scharf, Frederick S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

^b Southern District Office   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE CLASS; ANNUAL VARIATION; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; GROWTH RATE; JUVENILE; MORTALITY; OVERWINTERING; PERCIFORM; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SURVIVAL;

NORTH AMERICA; NORTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

PISCES; SCIAENOPS; SCIAENOPS OCELLATUS;

EID: 49049113032     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T07-176.1     Document Type: Article

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