Lost watersheds: Barriers, aquatic habitat connectivity, and salmon persistence in the Willamette and Lower Columbia River basins

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 135, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1654-1669

  Sheer, M B ^a   Steel, E A ^a  

^a ALASKA FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ANADROMY; AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM; ENDANGERED SPECIES; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT LOSS; HABITAT QUALITY; HABITAT STRUCTURE; SALMONID; STREAM; WATERSHED;

COLUMBIA BASIN; NORTH AMERICA;

ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS; ONCORHYNCHUS TSHAWYTSCHA; PISCES; SALMONIDAE;

EID: 34247592115     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T05-221.1     Document Type: Article

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