Movements of juvenile endangered smalltooth sawfish, Pristis pectinata, in an estuarine river system: Use of non-main-stem river habitats and lagged responses to freshwater inflow-related changes

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 96, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 763-778

  Poulakis, Gregg R ^a,b   Stevens, Philip W ^a   Timmers, Amy A ^a   Stafford, Christopher J ^a   Simpfendorfer, Colin A ^c  

^a FISH AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Florida Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Acoustic monitoring; Caloosahatchee River; Charlotte Harbor; Elasmobranch; Generalized additive model; Ontogenetic niche shift; Pristidae; Telemetry

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC METHOD; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; FISH; HABITAT USE; INFLOW; JUVENILE; LIFE HISTORY; MOVEMENT; NURSERY GROUND; RIVER SYSTEM; TAGGING; TELEMETRY;

CALOOSAHATCHEE RIVER; CHARLOTTE HARBOR; FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

PRISTIDAE; PRISTIS PECTINATA;

EID: 84876444089     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10641-012-0070-x     Document Type: Article

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