Anthropogenic impacts on American eel demographics in Hudson River tributaries, New York

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 136, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1699-1713

  Machut, Leonard S ^a,b   Limburg, Karin E ^a   Schmidt, Robert E ^c   Dittman, Dawn ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c Simon's Rock College   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BARRIER (EQUIPMENT); DEMOGRAPHY; EEL; GROWTH RATE; MITIGATION; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION GROWTH; SPECIES CONSERVATION; TRIBUTARY;

HUDSON RIVER; NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ANGUILLA ROSTRATA;

EID: 38349014829     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T06-140.1     Document Type: Article

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