Assessment of thermal stratification within stream pools as a mechanism to provide refugia for native trout in hot, arid rangelands

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 124, Issue 1-3, 2007, Pages 289-300

  Tate, Kenneth W ^a   Lancaster, Donald L ^b   Lile, David F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA COOPERATIVE EXTENSION   (United States)

Author keywords

Cold water refugia; Oncorhynchus mykiss; Redband trout; Stream temperature

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FISH; TEMPERATURE; UNITED STATES;

COLD WATER SPECIES; REDBAND TROUT (ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS); STREAM TEMPERATURE;

THERMAL STRATIFICATION;

SURFACE WATER;

ABUNDANCE; AIR TEMPERATURE; COLD WATER; FISH; HABITAT STRUCTURE; POOL; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RANGELAND; REFUGIUM; STRATIFICATION; STREAMWATER; SURVIVAL; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WATER TEMPERATURE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; HABITAT; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; RAINBOW TROUT; RANGELAND; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES REFUGE; STREAM (RIVER); SUMMER; UNITED STATES; WATER TEMPERATURE; WEATHER;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMALS; CLIMATE; COLD; HEAT; ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS; RIVERS; SEASONS; WATER;

BOLES CREEK; CALIFORNIA; MODOC PLATEAU; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS; SALMONIDAE;

EID: 33847700042     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-006-9226-5     Document Type: Article

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