Minimum habitat requirements for establishing translocated cutthroat trout populations

Ecological Applications

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 535-551

  Harig, Amy L ^a,b   Fausch, Kurt D ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b Trout Unlimited   (United States)

Author keywords

Cutthroat trout; Greenback cutthroat trout; Habitat fragmentation; Information theoretic approach; Landscape scale; Patch scale; Polytomous logistic regression; Restoration; Rio Grande cutthroat trout; Salmonid habitat; Translocation

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ENDANGERED SPECIES; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SALMONID; TRANSLOCATION;

COLORADO; NEW MEXICO; UNITED STATES;

AMADINA FASCIATA; ONCORHYNCHUS CLARKI; ONCORHYNCHUS CLARKII STOMIAS; ONCORHYNCHUS CLARKII VIRGINALIS; PISCES; SALMONIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036557556     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(2002)012[0535:MHRFET]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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