Stream pH as an abiotic gradient influencing distributions of trout in Pennsylvania streams

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 134, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1299-1312

  Kocovsky, Patrick M ^a,b   Carline, Robert F ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELEVATION; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; PH; SALMONID; SLOPE; STREAM;

APPALACHIAN PLATEAU; APPALACHIANS; NORTH AMERICA; PENNSYLVANIA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

SALMO TRUTTA; SALMONIDAE; SALVELINUS FONTINALIS;

EID: 27144486571     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T04-177.1     Document Type: Article

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