Effects of floods on brook trout populations in the Monongahela national forest, West Virginia

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 132, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1014-1020

  Carline, Robert F ^a   McCullough, Brian J ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOODING; HABITAT SELECTION; POPULATION DENSITY; SALMONID; STREAM;

UNITED STATES;

FONTINALIS; SALMONIDAE; SALVELINUS; SALVELINUS FONTINALIS;

EID: 0141676287     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T02-112     Document Type: Article

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