Landscape controls on boulder-rich, winter habitat availability and their effects on Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) parr abundance in two fifth-order mountain streams

Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 648-658

  Coulombe Pontbriand, M ^a   Lapointe, Michel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOULDER; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; POPULATION DENSITY; SALMONID; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STREAM;

CANADA; GASPE; NORTH AMERICA; QUEBEC;

SALMO; SALMO SALAR; SALMONIDAE;

EID: 3543071773     PISSN: 0706652X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/f04-023     Document Type: Article

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