Browsing Faculty of Science & Technology (FST) by Subject "Largemouth bass"

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    • The introduced Micropterus salmoides in an equatorial lake: a paradoxical loser in an invasion meltdown scenario? 

      Britton, J. Robert; Harper, David M; Oyugi, Dalmas O; Grey, Jonathan (Springer NetherlandsSchool of Biological Sciences, University of NairobiDepartment of Biology, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK, 2010)
      Micropterus salmoides is a North American piscivorous fish on the IUCN list of 100 of the world’s worst invasive alien species. Introduced into Lake Naivasha (Kenya) in 1929, their current population abundance is significantly ...

    • Is the fast growth of an equatorial Micropterus salmoides population explained by high water temperature 

      Britton, JR; Harper, DM; Oyugi, DO (School of Biological Sciences, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, KenyaDepartment of Biology, University of Leicester, Leicester, UKCentre for Conservation Ecology and Environmental Change, School of Conservation Sciences, Bournemouth University, Poole, Dorset, UK, 2010)
      Marginal increment analysis of scales collected from the introduced Micropterus salmoides population of Lake Naivasha, Kenya revealed the formation of an annual growth check, validating their use to age individual fish. ...