Quantifying habitat-dependent mortality risk in lacustrine fishes by means of tethering trials and survival analyses

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 263-273

  Laplante Albert, Kathy Andrée ^a   Rodríguez, Marco A ^a   Magnan, Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À TROIS RIVIÈRES   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cox regression; Kaplan Meier curves; Predator prey interactions; Transparency; Vegetation cover

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AVOIDANCE REACTION; LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENT; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; MACROPHYTE; MORTALITY RISK; PREDATION RISK; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL; TELEOST; TRANSPARENCY; VEGETATION COVER;

CANADA; LAC SAINT PIERRE; QUEBEC [CANADA];

AMEIURUS NEBULOSUS; COTTUS GOBIO; HIODON TERGISUS; HIODONTIDAE; NOTROPIS; NOTROPIS ATHERINOIDES; NOTROPIS CHRYSOLEUCAS; NOTROPIS HETEROLEPIS; NOTROPIS HUDSONIUS; PERCA; PERCA FLAVESCENS; PERCOPSIS OMISCOMAYCUS; PISCES; SALMONIDAE;

EID: 77949654990     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10641-010-9595-z     Document Type: Article

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