Effects of salinity, temperature, and weight on the survival of young-of-year shortnose sturgeon

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 137, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1490-1499

  Ziegeweid, Jeffrey R ^a   Jennings, Cecil A ^a   Peterson, Douglas L ^a   Black, Marsha C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN ACTIVITY; LABORATORY METHOD; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SALINITY; SURVIVAL; TELEOST; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TEMPERATURE TOLERANCE; WEIGHT;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ACIPENSER BREVIROSTRUM;

EID: 57349106470     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T07-046.1     Document Type: Article

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