Thermal habitat characteristics for warmwater fishes in coastal embayments of Lake Ontario

Journal of Great Lakes Research

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 111-123

  Murphy, Shidan C ^a   Collins, Nicholas C ^a   Doka, Susan E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b GREAT LAKES LABORATORY FOR FISHERIES AND AQUATIC SCIENCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

Centrarchid; Compensation; Embayment; Habitat; Lake Ontario; Temperature

Indexed keywords

CENTRARCHID; COMPENSATION; EMBAYMENT; HABITAT; LAKE ONTARIO;

COOLING; ECOSYSTEMS; FISH; OPEN HEARTH FURNACES;

LAKES;

BATHYMETRY; COOLING; GROWTH RESPONSE; PERCIFORM; SEASONALITY; SHALLOW WATER; SHORELINE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WATER TEMPERATURE;

CANADA; GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; LAKE ONTARIO; ONTARIO [CANADA]; TORONTO;

CENTRARCHIDAE; LEPOMIS MACROCHIRUS; PISCES;

EID: 79951577564     PISSN: 03801330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jglr.2010.12.005     Document Type: Article

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