Do nonnative salmonines exhibit greater density and production than the natives they replace? a comparison of nonnative brook trout with native cutthroat trout

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 139, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 641-651

  Benjamin, Joseph R ^a   Baxter, Colden V ^a  

^a Nucl Eng Idaho State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM; BIOMASS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRAINAGE; FISHERY PRODUCTION; HABITAT TYPE; INVASIVE SPECIES; NATIVE SPECIES; POPULATION DENSITY; SALMONID; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SURVEY;

IDAHO; NORTH AMERICA; TETON RIVER; UNITED STATES;

ONCORHYNCHUS; ONCORHYNCHUS CLARKII; PISCES; SALMONIDAE; SALVELINUS FONTINALIS;

EID: 79955140377     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T09-102.1     Document Type: Article

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