Fine sediment affects on survival to emergence of robust redhorse

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 43-53

  Jennings, Cecil A ^a   Dilts, Erik W ^a,b   Shelton Jr , James L ^a   Peterson, Rebecca Cull ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b CenterPoint Energy   (United States)

Author keywords

Catostomidae; Oconee River; Sediment pollution; Spawning success; Survival to emergence; Warmwater river

Indexed keywords

EMERGENCE; FINE GRAINED SEDIMENT; FINFISH; INCUBATION; LARVA; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; SPAWNING; SUBSTRATE; SURVIVORSHIP; THRESHOLD; WARM WATER;

GEORGIA; OCONEE RIVER; UNITED STATES;

CATOSTOMIDAE; MOXOSTOMA ROBUSTUM;

EID: 72449173325     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10641-009-9561-9     Document Type: Article

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