Successes, failures, and opportunities in the practical application of drift-foraging models

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 97, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 551-574

  Rosenfeld, Jordan S ^a   Bouwes, Nicolaas ^b   Wall, C Eric ^c   Naman, Sean M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b Eco Logical Research   (United States)

^c UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioenergetics; Drift foraging; Habitat quality; Modelling growth; Stream habitat capacity

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; BIOENERGETICS; DRIFT FEEDING; GROWTH MODELING; HABITAT QUALITY; HABITAT SELECTION; SALMONID; STREAM; SUBSTRATE; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

INVERTEBRATA; PISCES; SALMONIDAE;

EID: 84898058713     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10641-013-0195-6     Document Type: Article

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