Spring migratory movements by paddlefish in natural and regulated river segments of the Missouri and Yellowstone rivers, North Dakota and Montana

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 135, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 200-217

  Firehammer, Jon A ^a   Scarnecchia, Dennis L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; FISH; MIGRATORY BEHAVIOR; RIVER DISCHARGE; SPAWNING POPULATION; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; TAGGING; WATER TEMPERATURE;

MISSOURI RIVER; NORTH AMERICA; NORTH DAKOTA; UNITED STATES; YELLOWSTONE RIVER;

POLYODON SPATHULA;

EID: 33749177381     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T05-058.1     Document Type: Article

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