Using thalweg profiling to assess and monitor juvenile salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.) habitat in small streams

Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Volumn 63, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1515-1525

  Mossop, Brent ^a,b   Bradford, Michael J ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b BC HYDRO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HABITAT QUALITY; HABITAT SELECTION; JUVENILE; LAND USE; POPULATION DENSITY; SALMONID; STREAM BED; STREAMFLOW; THALWEG;

ALASKA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; YUKON RIVER;

ONCORHYNCHUS; ONCORHYNCHUS TSHAWYTSCHA;

EID: 33748520524     PISSN: 0706652X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/F06-060     Document Type: Article

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