Abundance and recruitment of juvenile Atlantic sturgeon in the Altamaha River, Georgia

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 139, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1526-1535

  Schueller, Paul ^a   Peterson, Douglas L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE ESTIMATION; AGE CLASS; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; JUVENILE; LIFE HISTORY; POPULATION ECOLOGY; POPULATION MODELING; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); RIVER DISCHARGE; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SURVIVAL; TELEOST;

ALTAMAHA RIVER; GEORGIA; UNITED STATES;

ACIPENSER OXYRINCHUS;

EID: 79954503821     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T09-127.1     Document Type: Article

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