Habitat selection and overlap of Atlantic salmon and smallmouth bass juveniles in nursery streams

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 140, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1145-1157

  Wathen, Gus ^a   Coghlan Jr , Stephen M ^a   Zydlewski, Joseph ^a   Trial, Joan G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^b MAINE DEPARTMENT OF MARINE RESOURCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLOOD; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; HABITAT SELECTION; HABITAT USE; INTRODUCED SPECIES; JUVENILE; MESOCOSM; NURSERY GROUND; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PERCIFORM; SALMONID; SYMPATRY; VELOCITY; WATER COLUMN;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

MICROPTERUS DOLOMIEU; PERCIFORMES; SALMO SALAR;

EID: 80053013770     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00028487.2011.613284     Document Type: Article

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