Feeding ecology of juvenile pacific salmon (oncorhynchus spp.) in a northeast pacific fjord: Diet, availability of zooplankton, selectivity for prey, and potential competition for prey resources

Fishery Bulletin

Volumn 108, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 393-407

  Bollens, Stephen M ^a   vanden Hooff, Rian ^a   Butler, Mari ^b   Cordell, Jeffery R ^c   Frost, Bruce W ^d  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ENDICOTT COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARANEAE; COELENTERATA; COPEPODA; EUPHAUSIIDAE; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; ONCORHYNCHUS; ONCORHYNCHUS GORBUSCHA; ONCORHYNCHUS KETA; ONCORHYNCHUS KISUTCH; ONCORHYNCHUS TSHAWYTSCHA; PISCES; TELEOSTEI;

EID: 78049474188     PISSN: 00900656     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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