Wild origin and enriched environment promote foraging rate and learning to forage on natural prey of captive reared Atlantic salmon parr

Ecology of Freshwater Fish

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 569-579

  Rodewald, Petra ^a   Hyvärinen, Pekka ^b   Hirvonen, Heikki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Captive breeding; Conservation; Enriched rearing; Restocking; Salmo salar

Indexed keywords

SALMO SALAR; SALMONIDAE;

EID: 80054012816     PISSN: 09066691     EISSN: 16000633     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0633.2011.00505.x     Document Type: Article

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