Seasonal residency and movement patterns of two co-occurring catadromous percichthyids within a south-eastern Australian river

Ecology of Freshwater Fish

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 145-159

  Walsh, Chris T ^a,b   Reinfelds, Ivars V ^c   Gray, Charles A ^a   West, Ron J ^b   van der Meulen, Dylan E ^a   Craig, James R ^a  

^a NSW DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^c NSW Office of Water   (Australia)

Author keywords

Acoustic telemetry; Macquaria colonorum; Macquaria novemaculeata; Migration; Percichthyidae; Site fidelity

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; MACQUARIA COLONORUM; MACQUARIA NOVEMACULEATA; PERCICHTHYIDAE; PISCES;

EID: 82555165813     PISSN: 09066691     EISSN: 16000633     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0633.2011.00534.x     Document Type: Article

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