Field swimming performance of bluegill sunfish, Lepomis macrochirus: implications for field activity cost estimates and laboratory measures of swimming performance

K Cathcart, SY Shin, J Milton… - Ecology and Evolution, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
… In order to assess the applicability of laboratory performance … swimming behavior in bluegills
sunfish (Lepomis macrochirus, … Bluegills sunfish are ideal for a laboratory–field comparison …

Variation in growth and age at maturity in bluegill sunfish: genetic or environmental effects?

MC Belk - Journal of Fish Biology, 1995 - Wiley Online Library
laboratory of the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory on the Savannah River Site, Aiken Co.,
South Carolina, were used to spawn and rear bluegills … an appropriate measure of age at …

Inherent growth capacity and social costs of bluegill and hybrids of bluegill and green sunfish: which fish really grows faster?

RS Hayward, HP Wang - North American Journal of Aquaculture, 2002 - Taylor & Francis
… 2000 through March 2001 in our laboratory to compare the inherent growth capacities of …
, each contain six data points representing two measures of growth-rate decline (from the low- …

Boldness and behavioral syndromes in the bluegill sunfish, Lepomis macrochirus

ADM Wilson, JGJ Godin - Behavioral Ecology, 2009 - academic.oup.com
… in boldness in the laboratory among field-caught juvenile bluegill sunfish (Lepomis macrochirus)
… Because we are primarily interested in measures of risk taking, behaviors were only …

Capture technique and fish personality: angling targets timid bluegill sunfish, Lepomis macrochirus

ADM Wilson, TR Binder, KP McGrath… - Canadian Journal of …, 2011 - cdnsciencepub.com
… Here, we used both field and laboratory techniques with juvenile bluegill sunfish (Lepomis …
and brought back to the laboratory for measurement and determination of reproductive status (…

Phenotypic variation and vulnerability to predation in juvenile bluegill sunfish (Lepomis macrochirus)

SR Chipps, JA Dunbar, DH Wahl - Oecologia, 2004 - Springer
… When combined in a canonical analysis, measurements of body depth, pectoral fin length …
laboratory. We thank T. Ehlinger for his insights and suggestions during a visit to our laboratory

The role of foraging profitability and experience in habitat use by the bluegill sunfish

EE Werner, GG Mittelbach, DJ Hall - Ecology, 1981 - Wiley Online Library
… specialization by the bluegill sunfish (Lepomis macrochirus) in the field … laboratory measures
of foraging efficiency. In the laboratory we measured foraging efficiency of the bluegill in two …

Rearing male bluegills indoors may be advantageous for producing food‐size sunfish

RS Hayward, HP Wang - Journal of the World Aquaculture …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
… Feed-trained, Age 1 bluegills and B × G hybrids were obtained in April 2000 from the ponds
of a major sunfish supplier in Missouri and transported to our laboratory. Bluegills and B × G …

Is there a pace-of-life syndrome linking boldness and metabolic capacity for locomotion in bluegill sunfish?

TR Binder, ADM Wilson, SM Wilson, CD Suski… - Animal Behaviour, 2016 - Elsevier
… water and transferred to shore-side laboratory facilities at the Queens' University Biological
… not measure routine activity in the current study, previous studies on bluegill sunfish have …

The mixed function oxidase system of bluegill sunfish, Lepomis macrochirus: Correlation of activities in experimental and wild fish

BD Jimenez, LS Burtis, GH Ezell… - … and Chemistry: An …, 1988 - Wiley Online Library
… In sum, controlled laboratory studies using bluegill sunfish indicated that many environmental
variables, such as feeding, temperature, and contaminant dose, are associated with …