Effects of logging second-growth forests on headwater populations of coastal cutthroat trout: A 6-year, multistream, before-and-after field experiment

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 136, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 211-226

  De Groot, Jennifer D ^a   Hinch, Scott G ^a   Richardson, John S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BODY CONDITION; CLIMATE EFFECT; FIELD METHOD; HABITAT; HEADWATER; LOGGING (TIMBER); RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SALMONID;

ONCORHYNCHUS; ONCORHYNCHUS CLARKII CLARKII; SALMONIDAE;

EID: 33847352454     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T04-232.1     Document Type: Article

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