The Ecology of Body Size and Depth Use by Bloater (Coregonus hoyi Gill) in the Laurentian Great Lakes: Patterns and Hypotheses

Reviews in Fisheries Science

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 174-186

  Clemens, Benjamin J ^a   Crawford, Stephen S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b Chippewas of Nawash Unceded First Nation   (Canada)

Author keywords

body size; competition; diel vertical migration; netabolism; predation

Indexed keywords

COREGONUS HOYI;

EID: 70449520249     PISSN: 10641262     EISSN: 15476553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10641260802618375     Document Type: Article

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