Multiscale thermal refugia and stream habitat associations of chinook salmon in northeastern Oregon

Ecological Applications

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 301-319

  Torgersen, Christian E ^a   Price, David M ^a   Li, Hiram W ^a   McIntosh, Bruce A ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral thermoregulation; Habitat association; Logistic regression; Oregon; Patchiness; Salmon, adult chinook; Salmonid ecology; Spawning habitat; Stream temperature; Thermal mapping; Thermal refugia; Thermal remote sensing

Indexed keywords

HABITAT USE; REFUGE; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STREAM; THERMAL STRUCTURE;

JOHN DAY RIVER; OREGON; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; ONCORHYNCHUS TSHAWYTSCHA; SALMONIDAE; SALMONIFORMES;

EID: 0033081594     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(1999)009[0301:MTRASH]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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