Dispersal and retention of larval fish in a potential nursery habitat of a large temperate river: an experimental study

Little information is available on governing factors of larval fish dispersal in natural river systems. Therefore, we aimed to describe dispersal and retention of marked larval nase carp, Chondrostoma nasus , along a shoreline nursery habitat of the River Danube. Based on a three-dimensional hydrodynamic model, we analyzed the influence of the hydraulic conditions on larval dispersal. We also related observed larval pathways to numerical...