Causes of mortality of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) and brown trout (Salmo trutta) smolts in a restored river and its estuary

River Research and Applications

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 69-78

  Koed, Anders ^a   Baktoft, Henrik ^a   Bak, Brian Daniel ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Atlantic salmon; Brown trout; Estuary; Mortality; Radiotelemetry; River restoration; Salmo salar; Salmo trutta; Smolt

Indexed keywords

HABITAT RESTORATION; MORTALITY; SALMONID;

DENMARK; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; RINGKOBING; SCANDINAVIA; SKJERN RIVER;

AVES; PHALACROCORACIDAE; PHALACROCORAX CARBO SINENSIS; SALMO SALAR; SALMO TRUTTA;

EID: 31544468925     PISSN: 15351459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rra.894     Document Type: Article

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