Relative Abundance, Growth, and Mortality of Five Age‐0 Estuarine Fishes in Relation to Discharge of the Suwannee River, Florida

• Published in: Transactions of the American Fisheries Society
• Main Authors: Purtlebaugh, Caleb H., Allen, Micheal S.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2010
• Subjects: Suwannee River; Red drum; Sciaenops ocellatus
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1577/t09-180.1; https://afspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1577/T09-180.1

Abstract Understanding the relationships between river discharge and recruitment of estuarine fishes is important because of hydrological alterations caused by anthropogenic water withdrawals. Varying river discharge alters salinity, turbidity, nutrient levels, and detrital concentrations, all of wh...