Cold summer temperature regimes cause a recruitment bottleneck in age-0 Colorado River cutthroat trout reared in laboratory streams

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 136, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 639-654

  Coleman, Mark A ^a   Fausch, Kurt D ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; HATCHING; LABORATORY METHOD; MORTALITY; NATIVE SPECIES; POPULATION BOTTLENECK; RECRUITMENT; SALMONID; SURVIVAL; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

COLORADO RIVER [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA; ROCKY MOUNTAINS;

ONCORHYNCHUS; ONCORHYNCHUS CLARKII; ONCORHYNCHUS CLARKII PLEURITICUS; SALMONIDAE;

EID: 34250214977     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T05-288.1     Document Type: Article

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