Effects of drifting prey abundance on food consumption and growth of brook trout in Shenandoah National Park
The relation between prey density and brook trout Salvelinus fontinalis food consumption has not been quantified in natural streams. This relation may be most critical in the summer when southern Appalachian trout have demonstrated poor growth. It is not Known whether the poor growth is due to the l...
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Virginia Tech
2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/42219 http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-04252009-040707/ |