Smallmouth bass mortality during parental care: implications for year-class strength

<p>I tested hypotheses that daily mortality rates (DMR) of smallmouth bass offspring were influenced by life stage, density and growth, parental male attributes, fungus infection (egg stage), and predation during parental care in the North Anna River, Virginia.</p> <p> In 1994, s...

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Main Author: Knotek, W. Ladd
Other Authors: Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/41108
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-02132009-172544/