Reconstruction of Pacific salmon abundance from riparian tree-ring growth

Ecological Applications

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1523-1542

  Drake, D C ^a,b   Naiman, Robert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Dendroecology; Nutrients; Oncorhynchus; Pacific Northwest; Pacific salmon; Paleoecology; Reconstruction; Riparian; Tree rings

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AERIAL SURVEY; ESCAPEMENT; NUTRIENT; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; PALEOECOLOGY; POPULATION CYCLE; RECONSTRUCTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RIPARIAN VEGETATION; SALMONID; SPAWNING; TREE RING;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTHWEST);

ONCORHYNCHUS; ONCORHYNCHUS GORBUSCHA; ONCORHYNCHUS KETA; ONCORHYNCHUS NERKA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CANADA; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; RIVER; SALMON; TIME; TREE; UNITED STATES;

ALASKA; ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHY; NORTHWESTERN UNITED STATES; OREGON; RIVERS; SALMON; TIME FACTORS; TREES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34848846969     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/06-1200.1     Document Type: Article

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