Using bioenergetics modeling to estimate consumption of native juvenile salmonids by nonnative northern pike in the Upper Flathead River System, Montana

North American Journal of Fisheries Management

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 636-648

  Muhlfeld, Clint C ^a   Bennett, David H ^b   Kirk Steinhorst, R ^b   Marotz, Brian ^c   Boyer, Matthew ^c  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^c WILDLIFE AND PARKS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOENERGETICS; CYPRINID; FOOD CONSUMPTION; INVASIVE SPECIES; JUVENILE; NATIVE SPECIES; POPULATION ESTIMATION; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SALMONID;

FLATHEAD RIVER; MONTANA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

CATOSTOMIDAE; CENTRARCHIDAE; COREGONUS; COTTIDAE; CYPRINIDAE; ESOX LUCIUS; KATHETOSTOMA GIGANTEUM; ONCORHYNCHUS; ONCORHYNCHUS CLARKII; ONCORHYNCHUS CLARKII LEWISI; PERCA; PERCA FLAVESCENS; PISCES; PROSOPIUM; SALMONIDAE; SALVELINUS CONFLUENTUS;

EID: 51249099787     PISSN: 02755947     EISSN: 15488675     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/M07-004.1     Document Type: Article

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