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Title: | Dynamics of One-Species Populations of Fishes in Ponds Subjected to Cropping and Additional Stocking |
Author(s): | Buck, Homer; Thoits III, Charles F. |
Subject(s): | Fishes
Cropping systems Fish stocking -- Illinois Population dynamics |
Abstract: | THIS REPORT is based on several years of intensive studies of the production and related population dynamics of six kinds of warmwater fishes maintained as single species in 1-acre ponds. Species involved included the largemouth bass, Micropteriis salmoides (Lacepede); smallmouth bass, M. dolomieiii Lacepede; bluegill, Lepomis macrochiriis Rafinesque; yellow perch, Perca flavescens (Mitchill); brown bullhead, Ictahiriis uebulosus (LeSueur); and the white crappie, Pomoxis annularis Rafinesque. Most production data published for these species have originated primarily from studies involving complex, multispecies populations. The principal aims of this investigation were to 1 ) increase our knowledge of the carrying capacities of ponds for warmwater fishes, 2) consider the relationship of carrying capacity to standing crop and to rate of production, and 3) measure the influence of controlled population increases and decreases on fish production. |
Issue Date: | 1970-03 |
Publisher: | Champaign : Illinois Natural History Survey |
Series/Report: | Illinois Natural History Survey Bulletin; v. 030, no. 02 |
Genre: | Article |
Type: | Text |
Language: | English |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2142/44070 |
ISSN: | 0073-4918 |
Publication Status: | published or submitted for publication |
Peer Reviewed: | is peer reviewed |
Rights Information: | Copyright 2009 University of Illinois Board of Trustees. All rights reserved. |
Date Available in IDEALS: | 2013-05-23 |