Lack of angling-sized yellow perch in a Canadian Boreal Lake: Potential influences of growth rate, diet, and predation by double-crested cormorants

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 139, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1029-1040

  Barks, Patrick M ^a   Doucette, Jennifer L ^a   Somers, Christopher M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE CLASS; ANGLING; BODY SIZE; COMMERCIAL SPECIES; GROWTH RATE; HABITAT USE; INTRAPOPULATION VARIATION; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; LIFE HISTORY; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; ONTOGENY; PERCID; PISCIVORY; PREDATION; PREY PREFERENCE; SEABIRD; STABLE ISOTOPE; STOMACH CONTENT;

CANADA;

PERCA; PERCA FLAVESCENS; PHALACROCORAX AURITUS;

EID: 79954466975     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T09-174.1     Document Type: Article

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