The influence of alewife year-class strength on prey selection and abundance of age-1 Chinook salmon in Lake Michigan

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 137, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1683-1700

  Warner, David M ^a   Kiley, Courtney S ^a   Claramunt, Randall M ^b   Clapp, David F ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOMASS; CLUPEOID; DIET; DIETARY SHIFT; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; GROWTH RATE; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; PREY AVAILABILITY; PREY SELECTION; SALMONID; YOUNG POPULATION;

GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; LAKE MICHIGAN; NORTH AMERICA;

ALOSA PSEUDOHARENGUS; COREGONUS HOYI; ONCORHYNCHUS TSHAWYTSCHA;

EID: 58149269295     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T07-130.1     Document Type: Article

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