Effects of habitat fragmentation by damming on the persistence of stream-dwelling charr populations

Conservation Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1318-1323

  Morita, Kentaro ^a   Yamamoto, Shoichiro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM; DAM CONSTRUCTION; FISH; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; PERSISTENCE;

JAPAN;

SALVELINUS; SALVELINUS FONTINALIS; SALVELINUS LEUCOMAENIS;

EID: 0036792953     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.2002.01476.x     Document Type: Article

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