Otolith elemental composition and adult tagging reveal spawning site fidelity and estuarine dependency in rainbow smelt

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 368, Issue , 2008, Pages 255-268

  Bradbury, I R ^a   Campana, S E ^b   Bentzen, P ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b BEDFORD INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dispersal; Homing; Otolith chemistry; Population dynamics; Rainbow smelt

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DISPERSAL; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; MASS SPECTROMETRY; OTOLITH; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SALMONID; SITE FIDELITY; SPAWNING GROUND;

CANADA; NEWFOUNDLAND; NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR; NORTH AMERICA;

ANIMALIA; OSMERUS; OSMERUS MORDAX;

EID: 54549114595     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps07583     Document Type: Article

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