Movements of Diadromous Fish in Large Unregulated Tropical Rivers Inferred from Geochemical Tracers

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Walther, Benjamin D ^a,b   Dempster, Tim ^c   Letnic, Mike ^d   McCulloch, Malcolm T ^a,e  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARIUM; STRONTIUM;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CATCHMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FISH; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; HABITAT SELECTION; HABITAT USE; ISOTOPE TRACING; LATES CALCARIFER; NONHUMAN; OTOLITH; POPULATION MIGRATION; POPULATION MOVEMENT PATTERN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RIVER; TROPICS; ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOTOPE LABELING; LIFE CYCLE; METHODOLOGY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY; TROPIC CLIMATE; VESTIBULE;

LATES CALCARIFER; PISCES;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; ECOSYSTEM; FISHES; GEOGRAPHY; ISOTOPE LABELING; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MOVEMENT; OTOLITHIC MEMBRANE; RIVERS; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 79953743968     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0018351     Document Type: Article

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