Influence of landscape-scale factors in limiting brook trout populations in Pennsylvania streams

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 135, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 76-88

  Kocovsky, Patrick M ^a,b   Carline, Robert F ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; DATABASE; FISH; LANDSCAPE; POPULATION DENSITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL VARIATION; STREAMWATER; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WATER CHEMISTRY;

NORTH AMERICA; PENNSYLVANIA; UNITED STATES;

SALMONIDAE; SALVELINUS FONTINALIS;

EID: 33749177529     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T04-175.1     Document Type: Article

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