Long-term population dynamics of the endangered Snake River sockeye salmon: Evidence of past influences on stock decline and impediments to recovery

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 136, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 800-821

  Selbie, Daniel T ^a,d   Lewis, Bert A ^b,e   Smol, John P ^a   Finney, Bruce P ^c  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Shoshone Bannock Tribes   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e ALASKA DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND GAME   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ENDANGERED SPECIES; HARVESTING; JUVENILE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SALMONID; SPECIES CONSERVATION; ZOOPLANKTON;

IDAHO; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; REDFISH LAKE; UNITED STATES;

ALGAE; BACILLARIOPHYTA; CHRYSOPHYCEAE; ONCORHYNCHUS; ONCORHYNCHUS NERKA;

EID: 34250203267     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T06-100.1     Document Type: Article

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