Accumulated snow and summer temperature - Critical factors for recruitment to high mountain populations of brown trout (Salmo trutta L.)

Ecology of Freshwater Fish

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 375-384

  Borgstrom R ^a   Museth, J ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b INLAND NORWAY UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

Climate change; Overpopulation; Recruitment failure; Year class strength

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT; RECRUITMENT; SALMONID; SNOW ACCUMULATION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

SALMO TRUTTA; SALMONIDAE;

EID: 28244446994     PISSN: 09066691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0633.2005.00112.x     Document Type: Review

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