Striped bass habitat selection rules in reservoirs without suitable summer habitat offer insight into consequences for growth

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 139, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1450-1464

  Thompson, Jessica S ^a,b   Rice, James A ^a   Scott Waters, D ^a,c  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CHRISTOPHER NEWPORT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Kansas Department of Wildlife & Parks   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOTELEMETRY; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; GROWTH RATE; HABITAT SELECTION; HYPOXIA; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; MORTALITY; PERCIFORM; PREY AVAILABILITY; RESERVOIR; SUMMER; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

BADIN LAKE; NORTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

MORONE; MORONE SAXATILIS;

EID: 79954507816     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T09-140.1     Document Type: Article

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