Colorado River floods, droughts, and shrimp fishing in the Upper Gulf of California, Mexico

Environmental Management

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 111-125

  All, John D ^a  

^a WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

AVHRR; Change detection; Climate variability; Colorado River Delta; Endangered species habitat; Flooding; NDVI; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; FISHERIES; FLOOD CONTROL; HYDROLOGY; REMOTE SENSING;

CHANGE DETECTION; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; COLORADO RIVER DELTA; FLOODING;

RIVERS;

FRESH WATER; RIVER WATER;

AVHRR; DROUGHT; ECONOMIC IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FLOODING; HYDROLOGICAL REGIME; SHRIMP FISHERY;

ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; DROUGHT; FISHERY; FISHING; FLOODING; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HYDROLOGY; IMAGERY; INDUSTRY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RADIOMETRY; RIVER; RIVER BASIN; RIVER ECOSYSTEM; SEA; SHRIMP; UNITED STATES; WATER FLOW;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; FISHERIES; MEXICO; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NATURAL DISASTERS; RIVERS; SHELLFISH; WATER MOVEMENTS;

COLORADO BASIN; GULF OF CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

ANAS; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA);

EID: 29544447775     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-004-0184-9     Document Type: Article

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