Factors influencing hunter recruitment, participation, and retention of male and female hunters in Illinois ﻿
St James, Elizabeth (2014-09-16)
Continued hunting participation is critical to maintain funding for natural resource conservation agencies; however, the hunting population has been decreasing on a national level. During recent decades, the number of ...
The importance of density-dependent mechanisms in determining cohort survival in largemouth bass ﻿
Pope, Aloah (2012-02-06)
Understanding factors important to recruitment in fishes has proven to be a difficult and challenging problem. Largemouth bass Micropterus salmoides, a popular recreational sport fish, is an excellent model species to ...
Life history trade-offs in a parental care-providing fish: the role of reproductive value, predation threat, and physiological condition on brood abandonment decisions by paternal largemouth bass ﻿
Zuckerman, Zachary (2012-06-27)
Parental care evolved as a means to maximize reproductive success at a cost to physiological and nutritional condition of the care-providing individual, and at a cost to future reproductive potential. Parental investment ...