Variability in timing and characteristics of atlantic salmon smolt in icelandic rivers

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 131, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 643-655

  Antonsson, Thorolfur ^a   Gudjonsson, Sigurdur ^a  

^a Institute of Freshwater Fisheries Reykjavik   (Iceland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMIGRATION; MIGRATION; RIVER; SALMONID; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ICELAND;

SALMO; SALMO SALAR; SALMONIDAE;

EID: 0036311305     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/1548-8659(2002)131<0643:VITACO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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