Marine subsidies in freshwater ecosystems: salmon carcasses increase the growth rates of stream-resident salmonids.
Abstract.-We tested the hypotheses that marine-derived resource subsidies (salmon carcasses) increase the growth rates of stream-resident salmonids in southeastern Alaska and that more carcasses translate into more growth. Five carcass treatments of pink salmon Oncorhynchus gorbuscha (0, 1, 2, 3, an...
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2003
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| Online Access: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.1072.5922 http://www.salmonguy.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/salmon-carcasses-increase-growth-rate.pdf |