Population status of Colorado pikeminnow in the Green River Basin, Utah and Colorado

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 136, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1356-1380

  Bestgen, Kevin R ^a   Hawkins, John A ^a   White, Gary C ^b   Christopherson, Kevin D ^c   Hudson, J Michael ^c   Fuller, Mark H ^d   Kitcheyan, D Chris ^d   Brunson, Ronald ^c   Badame, Paul ^c   Haines, G Bruce ^d   Jackson, Julie A ^c   Walford, Cameron D ^a   Sorensen, Tasha A ^a  

^a Colorado State University ^*  (United States)

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

^c UTAH DIVISION OF WILDLIFE RESOURCES   (United States)

^d US Fish and Wildlife Service   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ADULT; CYPRINID; ENDANGERED SPECIES; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION ESTIMATION; SAMPLING; SURVIVAL;

ARKANSAS; COLORADO; COLORADO BASIN; GREEN BASIN; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; UTAH; WHITE RIVER [ARKANSAS]; YAMPA RIVER;

PISCES; PTYCHOCHEILUS LUCIUS;

EID: 35848951388     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T05-303.1     Document Type: Article

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