Measure twice, estimate once: Pacific salmon population viability analysis for highly variable populations

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 136, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 346-364

  Paulsen, Charles M ^a   Hinrichsen, Richard A ^b   Fisher, Timothy R ^c  

^a Hinrichsen Environmental Services ^*  (United States)

^b Hinrichsen Environmental Services   (United States)

^c Fisher Fisheries Ltd   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE ESTIMATION; MEASUREMENT METHOD; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION VIABILITY ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; SALMONID;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; SNAKE RIVER; UNITED STATES;

ONCORHYNCHUS; ONCORHYNCHUS GORBUSCHA; ONCORHYNCHUS TSHAWYTSCHA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 34247257864     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T05-300.1     Document Type: Article

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