Ontogenetic diet shifts of juvenile Chinook salmon in nearshore and offshore habitats of Puget sound

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 139, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 803-823

  Duffy, Elisabeth J ^a   Beauchamp, David A ^a   Sweeting, Ruston M ^b   Beamish, Richard J ^b   Brennan, James S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b PACIFIC BIOLOGICAL STATION   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CLUPEOID; CRUSTACEAN; DIET; DIETARY SHIFT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GROWING SEASON; GROWTH RATE; HABITAT TYPE; INSECT; JUVENILE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NEARSHORE ENVIRONMENT; ONTOGENY; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SALMONID; SAMPLING; SURVIVAL;

PUGET SOUND; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

AMMODYTES HEXAPTERUS; CLUPEA PALLASI; CLUPEIDAE; CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); GAMMARIDEA; HEXAPODA; ONCORHYNCHUS TSHAWYTSCHA;

EID: 79955147464     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T08-244.1     Document Type: Article

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