Slow dam passage in adult Columbia River salmonids associated with unsuccessful migration: Delayed negative effects of passage obstacles or condition-dependent mortality?

Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Volumn 64, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 979-995

  Caudill, Christopher C ^a   Daigle, William R ^a   Keefer, Matthew L ^a   Boggs, Charles T ^a   Jepson, Michael A ^a   Burke, Brian J ^b   Zabel, Richard W ^b   Bjornn, Theodore C ^a   Peery, Christopher A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANADROMY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; MIGRATION; MORTALITY; PHENOTYPE; RADIOTELEMETRY; SALMONID;

COLUMBIA RIVER; NORTH AMERICA;

ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS; ONCORHYNCHUS TSHAWYTSCHA; PISCES; SALMONIDAE;

EID: 35348956487     PISSN: 0706652X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/F07-065     Document Type: Article

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