The temperature-productivity squeeze: Constraints on brook trout growth along an Appalachian river continuum

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 727, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 151-166

  Petty, J Todd ^a   Thorne, David ^a,b   Huntsman, Brock M ^a   Mazik, Patricia M ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b West Virginia Division of Natural Resources   (United States)

Author keywords

Brook trout; Competition; Density dependence; Diet; Growth and consumption; Thermal refugia; Watershed scale

Indexed keywords

CRAYFISH; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; DIET; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH RATE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; REFUGIUM; SALMONID; WATER TEMPERATURE;

APPALACHIANS;

ASTACOIDEA; HEXAPODA; PISCES; SALMONIDAE; SALVELINUS FONTINALIS;

EID: 84893743229     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-013-1794-0     Document Type: Article

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