Demographic model predicts trout population response to selenium based on individual-level toxicity

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 206, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 407-420

  Van Kirk, Robert W ^a   Hill, Sheryl L ^a  

^a Nucl Eng Idaho State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Cutthroat trout; Density dependence; Ecotoxicology; Population modeling; Selenium

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHIC MODEL; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; EQUILIBRIUM POPULATION SIZES; POPULATION-LEVEL EFFECTS; STOCHASTIC POPULATION;

CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SELENIUM; TOXICITY;

ECOSYSTEMS;

CARRYING CAPACITY; DEMOGRAPHY; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; ECOTOXICOLOGY; GROWTH RATE; JUVENILE; POPULATION MODELING; POPULATION SIZE; SALMONID; SELENIUM; SURVIVAL; TOXIC MATERIAL;

ONCORHYNCHUS CLARKII; SALMONIDAE;

EID: 34447629380     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2007.04.003     Document Type: Article

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