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Larval Fish Abundance In The Benthic And Surface Drift Of The Missouri River, Ryan L. Ruskamp
Larval Fish Abundance In The Benthic And Surface Drift Of The Missouri River, Ryan L. Ruskamp
Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education and Communication: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Scholarship
Knowledge of the larval fish community of the Missouri River is one of the biggest gaps in fisheries research. The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission has sampled the drift of the Missouri River for many years (1983-2015), but these data have not been compiled into a unified assessment. Therefore, the objectives of this study were to: 1) quantify temporal and spatial aspects of larval fish community composition (richness) and structure (abundance) of the surface drift, 2) quantify associations of larval fish communities of the drift to different discharges of the Missouri River, 3) quantify the larval benthic drift community, and …