Effects of interspecific competition on recruitment processes for rainbow trout in simple two fish-species lakes

This thesis explores how competition and predation by coexisting fish species affect recruitment (number of hatched larvae recruiting into the population). The study is primarily based on field manipulations on a series of eight lakes found in two parallel watersheds, each with two species of fish:...

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Main Author: van Poorten, Brett Theodore
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/42581