Response of the shrimp population in the Upper Gulf of California to fluctuations in discharges of the Colorado River

Agriculture & Biology

• Colorado River 100%
• Gulf of California 89%
• shrimp 58%
• postlarvae 58%
• river flow 48%
• Litopenaeus stylirostris 17%
• boats 13%
• food availability 11%
• endangered species 10%
• population density 9%
• indigenous species 9%
• habitats 6%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• catch per unit effort 80%
• river flow 66%
• gulf 48%
• biological cycle 33%
• river 32%
• food availability 25%
• endemic species 25%
• endangered species 24%
• population density 20%
• habitat 13%