caa a22 4500 606227687 CHVBK 20210128101159.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150401xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10641-014-0344-6 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10641-014-0344-6 Habitat use of juvenile striped bass Morone saxatilis (Actinopterygii: Moronidae) in rivers spanning a salinity gradient across a shallow wind-driven estuary [Elektronische Daten] [John Mohan, Norman Halden, Roger Rulifson] Transient and resident habitat utilization patterns were described for juvenile striped bass Morone saxatilis in Albemarle Sound, North Carolina, using otolith elemental chronologies. As fish grew and migrated across the sound and into river habitats, influences from the ambient environment became dominant on elemental patterns. Otolith Ba:Ca was the most reliable element to discern fish movement across the salinity gradients in Albemarle Sound. Resident fish displayed faster growth (mean ± standard deviation: 1.3 ± 0.23mm/d) than transients (1.1 ± 0.22mm/d), indicating that residents may have located high quality habitats and remained there, while transient fish expended energy searching for more optimal habitat. Faster growth rates (1.31 ± 0.22mm/d) and only resident fish were found in the Pasquotank River, which may be an important nursery habitat for juvenile striped bass. Slow growth (1.19 ± 0.26mm/d), and more transients (53%) were found in traditional nursery areas in Batchelor Bay at the mouth of the Roanoke River, indicating that these habitats may not be supporting high growth, causing fish to move out of these areas. This study discerns fine scale movements of juvenile striped bass and identified resident and transient contingents by combining otolith microchemistry with daily increment analysis to investigate the consequences of migratory behavior on fish growth. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2014 Otolith chemistry nationallicence Morone saxatilis nationallicence Nursery habitat nationallicence Daily growth nationallicence Albemarle Sound nationallicence Mohan John Department of Biology and Institute for Coastal Science and Policy, East Carolina University, 27858, Greenville, NC, USA aut Halden Norman Department of Geological Sciences, University of Manitoba, R2T 2N2, Winnipeg, MB, Canada aut Rulifson Roger Department of Biology and Institute for Coastal Science and Policy, East Carolina University, 27858, Greenville, NC, USA aut Environmental Biology of Fishes Springer Netherlands 98/4(2015-04-01), 1105-1116 0378-1909 98:4<1105 2015 98 10641 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10641-014-0344-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10641-014-0344-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Mohan John Department of Biology and Institute for Coastal Science and Policy, East Carolina University, 27858, Greenville, NC, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Halden Norman Department of Geological Sciences, University of Manitoba, R2T 2N2, Winnipeg, MB, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Rulifson Roger Department of Biology and Institute for Coastal Science and Policy, East Carolina University, 27858, Greenville, NC, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Environmental Biology of Fishes Springer Netherlands 98/4(2015-04-01), 1105-1116 0378-1909 98:4<1105 2015 98 10641