EFFECT OF WATER TEMPERATURE ON STOMACH EVACUATION RATES, AND ESTIMATION OF DAILY FOOD-INTAKE OF BLUEGILL SUNFISH (LEPOMIS-MACROCHIRUS RAFINESQUE)

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BOOTH, DJ [1 ]
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[1] QUEENS UNIV,DEPT BIOL,KINGSTON K7L 3N6,ONTARIO,CANADA
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CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY-REVUE CANADIENNE DE ZOOLOGIE | 1990年 / 68卷 / 03期
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10.1139/z90-084
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Q95 [动物学];
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071002 ;
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Field experiments were conducted to determine food-evacuation rate and measure stomach fullness. A combination of these data gave estimates of daily food intake of fish. Fish were captured and held in large holding pens and periodically subsampled. Stomach-evacuation rates obtained in this way increased significantly with water temperature over the range 10-25°C, but variation in stomach-evacuation rate was considerable, reducing the utility of water temperature as a predictor of stomach-evacuation rate. -from Author
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