Improved grazing management increases terrestrial invertebrate inputs that feed trout in Wyoming rangeland streams

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 136, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1216-1230

  Saunders, W Carl ^a   Fausch, Kurt D ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIET; GRAZING MANAGEMENT; PREY AVAILABILITY; RANGELAND; RIPARIAN ZONE; SALMONID; STREAM;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WYOMING;

INVERTEBRATA; SALMO TRUTTA; SALMONIDAE; SALVELINUS FONTINALIS;

EID: 35848937564     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T06-260.1     Document Type: Article

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