Experimental and field evidence of behavioural habitat selection by juvenile Atlantic Acipenser oxyrinchus oxyrinchus and shortnose Acipenser brevirostrum sturgeons

Journal of Fish Biology

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1293-1308

  Niklitschek, E J ^a   Secor, D H ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUSTRAL DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

Estuaries; Fish behaviour; Habitat discrimination; Hypoxia; Salinity; Temperature

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN; WATER;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; ENERGY METABOLISM; FISH; PHYSIOLOGY; SALINITY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TEMPERATURE;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; ENERGY METABOLISM; FISHES; OXYGEN; SALINITY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE; WATER;

EID: 79952196924     PISSN: 00221112     EISSN: 10958649     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8649.2010.02748.x     Document Type: Article

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