Potential effects of striped bass predation on juvenile fish in the Hudson River

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 137, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1591-1605

  Heimbuch, Douglas G ^a  

^a AKRF Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CLUPEOID; GADOID; JUVENILE; PERCIFORM; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION RISK; PREY PREFERENCE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SURVIVAL;

HUDSON RIVER; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ALOSA; ALOSA AESTIVALIS; ALOSA PSEUDOHARENGUS; CLUPEIDAE; MICROGADUS TOMCOD; MORONE; MORONE AMERICANA; MORONE SAXATILIS;

EID: 58149265205     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T07-236.1     Document Type: Article

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