Diel activity levels of centrarchid fishes in a small Ohio Lake

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 133, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1264-1269

  Shoup, Daniel E ^a,b   Carlson, Robert E ^a   Heath, Robert T ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY PATTERN; CATCH PER UNIT EFFORT; ICHTHYOFAUNA; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

NORTH AMERICA; OHIO; SANDY LAKE; UNITED STATES;

LEPOMIS; LEPOMIS GIBBOSUS; LEPOMIS MACROCHIRUS; MICROPTERUS; MICROPTERUS SALMOIDES; PISCES; POMOXIS; POMOXIS NIGROMACULATUS;

EID: 6344229862     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T03-037.1     Document Type: Article

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