Response of spawning lake sturgeons to change in hydroelectric facility operation

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 125, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 66-77

  Auer, Nancy A ^a  

^a MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROELECTRIC FACILITY; LAKE STURGEON; SPAWNING;

USA, MICHIGAN, STURGEON RIVER, PRICKETT DAM;

ACIPENSER FULVESCENS;

EID: 0029657743     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/1548-8659(1996)125<0066:ROSLST>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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