Metapopulation structure of bull trout: Influences of physical, biotic, and geometrical landscape characteristics

Ecological Applications

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 642-655

  Dunham, J B ^a   Rieman, B E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bull trout; Extinction risk; Habitat fragmentation; Incidence functions; Landscape ecology; Metapopulations; Salvelinus; Stream ecology

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FISH; FRAGMENTATION; POPULATION STRUCTURE;

SALVELINUS CONFLUENTUS; SALVELINUS FONTINALIS;

EID: 0033135322     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(1999)009[0642:MSOBTI]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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