Estimating natural selection acting on stream-dwelling Atlantic salmon: Implications for the restoration of extirpated populations

Conservation Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 795-805

  Hendry, Andrew P ^a   Letcher, Benjamin H ^b   Gries, Gabe ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NATURAL SELECTION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SALMONID; STREAM;

UNITED STATES;

SALMO; SALMO SALAR; SALMONIDAE;

EID: 0037566270     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.2003.02075.x     Document Type: Article

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