Mortality estimates of juvenile spring-summer Chinook salmon in the lower Columbia River and estuary, 1992-1998: Evidence for delayed mortality?

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 135, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 457-475

  Schreck, Carl B ^a   Stahl, Thomas P ^a,b   Davis, Lawrence E ^a,c   Roby, Daniel D ^a   Clemens, Benjamin J ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OREGON DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND WILDLIFE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; ESTIMATION METHOD; MORTALITY; PREDATOR; RISK ASSESSMENT; SALMONID; SMOLT;

COLUMBIA RIVER; NORTH AMERICA;

AVES; ONCORHYNCHUS TSHAWYTSCHA; PHALACROCORAX AURITUS; RENIBACTERIUM SALMONINARUM; SALMONIDAE; STERNA CASPIA;

EID: 33845685219     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T05-184.1     Document Type: Article

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