Effects of Ambient Water Quality on the Endangered Lost River Sucker in Upper Klamath Lake, Oregon

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 128, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 953-961

  Martin, Barbara A ^a   Saiki, Michael K ^a  

^a WESTERN FISHERIES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; ECOTOXICITY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; LAKE; MORTALITY; OXYGEN CONCENTRATION; PH; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RIVER; TEMPERATURE; UNITED STATES; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ENDANGERED SPECIES; FISH; MORTALITY; POPULATION DECLINE; WATER QUALITY;

OREGON; UNITED STATES; UPPER KLAMATH LAKE;

APHANIZOMENON FLOS AQUAE; DELTISTES LUXATUS;

EID: 0033406118     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/1548-8659(1999)128<0953:EOAWQO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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