Effects of Fall-to-Winter Changes in Habitat and Frazil Ice on the Movements and Habitat Use of Juvenile Rainbow Trout in a Wyoming Tailwater

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 129, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 101-118

  Simpkins, Darin G ^a   Hubert, Wayne A ^a   Wesche, Thomas A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HABITAT STRUCTURE; HABITAT USE; ICE; MOVEMENT; OVERWINTERING; SALMONID;

BIG HORN RIVER; UNITED STATES; WYOMING;

ANIMALIA; INVERTEBRATA; MYKISS; ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS; SALMONIDAE; SALMONIFORMES;

EID: 0033954526     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/1548-8659(2000)129<0101:EOFTWC>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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