Recovery of a warm water fish assemblage after the initiation of a minimum-flow release downstream from a hydroelectric dam

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 124, Issue 6, 1995, Pages 836-844

  Travnichek, Vincent H ^a   Bain, Mark B ^b   Maceina, Michael J ^c  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^c AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FISH COMMUNITY FLOW REGIME; HYDROELECTRIC DAM; SPECIES RICHNESS;

USA, ALABAMA, TALLAPOOSA RIVER;

EID: 0028995313     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/1548-8659(1995)124[0836:ROAWFA]2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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