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Comparative life history of female mosquitofish, Gambusia affinis, in tidal freshwater and oligohaline habitats

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Date Issued:
1990
Title: Comparative life history of female mosquitofish, Gambusia affinis, in tidal freshwater and oligohaline habitats.
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Name(s): Brown-Peterson, Nancy, creator
Peterson, Mark S., creator
Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Article
Issuance: single unit
Date Issued: 1990
Publisher: Springer
Extent: 10 p.
Physical Description: pdf
Language(s): English
Identifier: 3333133 (digitool), FADT3333133 (IID), fau:6247 (fedora), 10.1007/BF00004902 (doi)
Note(s): Female Gambusia affinis were collected from low salinity/near-neutral pH and tidal freshwater/low pH localities to document life history variation between these two habitats. Mosquito fish were 2.7 times more abundant in low salinity/near-neutral pH (2.37 ± 0.72 ppt; pH = 5.73 ± 0.11) than in tidal freshwater/low pH (0.27 ± 0.19 ppt; pH = 4.46 ± 0.18) habitats in Old Fort Bayou, a black-water tidal river of the Biloxi Bay estuary, Mississippi. Fish were common in both areas from June 1985 through February 1986. There were no significant differences between habitats in the length-weight relationships during the reproductive season with the exception of February.
This manuscript is an author version with the final publication available at http://www.springerlink.com and may be cited as: Brown-Peterson, N., & Peterson, M. S. (1990). Comparative life history of female mosquitofish, Gambusia affinis, in tidal freshwater and oligohaline habitats. Environmental Biology of Fishes, 27(1), 33-41. doi:10.1007/BF00004902
Florida Atlantic University. Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute contribution #683.
Persistent Link to This Record: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/3333133
Links: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00004902
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