Turbidity and salinity affect feeding performance and physiological stress in the endangered delta smelt

Integrative and Comparative Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 620-634

  Hasenbein, Matthias ^a,b   Komoroske, Lisa M ^a   Connon, Richard E ^a   Geist, Juergen ^b   Fangue, Nann A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; ESTUARY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; METHODOLOGY; OSMERIFORMES; OSMOREGULATION; PHOTOMETRY; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SALINITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES; WATER FLOW;

ANIMALS; CALIFORNIA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ESTUARIES; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEPHELOMETRY AND TURBIDIMETRY; OSMERIFORMES; OSMOREGULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SALINITY; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; WATER MOVEMENTS;

EID: 84884410778     PISSN: 15407063     EISSN: 15577023     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icb/ict082     Document Type: Article

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