Population level impacts of cooling water withdrawals on harvested fish stocks

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 2108-2114

  Newbold, Stephen C ^a   Iovanna, Rich ^a  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FISH; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POWER PLANTS; TURBINES;

HARVESTED FISH STOCKS; POPULATION MODEL; SCREENING ANALYSIS;

COOLING WATER;

COOLING WATER; LAKE WATER;

COOLING WATER; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FISH; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POWER PLANTS; TURBINES;

AGE STRUCTURE; COOLING WATER; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; ENTRAINMENT; FISHERY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MODELING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL; TURBINE;

AQUATIC SPECIES; ARTICLE; COASTAL WATERS; DENSITY; ELECTRIC POWER PLANT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ESTUARY; EVALUATION; FISH; NONHUMAN; RIVER; SCREENING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; FISHERIES; FISHES; INDUSTRY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RIVERS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES;

ATLANTIC COAST [NORTH AMERICA]; ATLANTIC COAST [UNITED STATES]; CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34247116127     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es060812g     Document Type: Article

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