Observer error structure in bull trout redd counts in Montana streams: Implications for inference on true redd numbers

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 135, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 643-654

  Muhlfeld, Clint C ^a   Taper, Mark L ^b   Staples, David F ^b   Shepard, Bradley B ^c  

^a Montana Fish   (United States)

^b MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Montana Cooperative Fishery Research Unit   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; SALMONID; SPAWNING; SPAWNING POPULATION;

FLATHEAD RIVER; GOAT CREEK; LION CREEK; MONTANA; NORTH AMERICA; SWAN RIVER [MONTANA]; UNITED STATES;

CAPRA HIRCUS; SALMONIDAE; SALVELINUS CONFLUENTUS;

EID: 33845660361     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T05-129.1     Document Type: Article

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