Intra- and intersystem variation in largemouth bass recruitment: Reproduction, prey availability, and the timing of year-class establishment

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 139, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1372-1385

  Parkos, Joseph J ^b   Wahl, D H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

^b FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AGE CLASS; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; INTERPOPULATION VARIATION; INTRAPOPULATION VARIATION; NESTING SUCCESS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARENTAL CARE; PERCIFORM; POPULATION MODELING; PREY AVAILABILITY; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REPRODUCTIVE PRODUCTIVITY; SURVIVAL; TURBIDITY;

LEPOMIS MACROCHIRUS; MICROPTERUS; MICROPTERUS SALMOIDES;

EID: 79954455760     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T09-097.1     Document Type: Article

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