Temporal and fine-scale spatial variation in fish assemblage structure in a drowned river mouth system of lake Michigan

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 140, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1429-1440

  Bhagat, Yakuta ^a   Ruetz III, Carl R ^a  

^a GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CYPRINID; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; LAKE DYNAMICS; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; MACROPHYTE; PERCIFORM; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; RIVER SYSTEM; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; LAKE MICHIGAN; MICHIGAN; MUSKEGON LAKE; MUSKEGON RIVER; UNITED STATES;

APOLLONIA MELANOSTOMUS; PERCA; PERCA FLAVESCENS; PIMEPHALES NOTATUS;

EID: 81555206709     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00028487.2011.630278     Document Type: Article

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