Steelhead growth in a small central California watershed: Upstream and estuarine rearing patterns

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 137, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 114-128

  Hayes, Sean A ^a   Bond, Morgan H ^a   Hanson, Chad V ^a   Freund, Ellen V ^a   Smith, Jerry J ^b   Anderson, Eric C ^c   Ammann, Arnold J ^c   MacFarlane, R Bruce ^c  

^a SOUTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; GROWTH RATE; HABITAT TYPE; LIFE HISTORY; REARING; SALMONID; SMOLT; SURVIVAL; TAGGING; WATERSHED;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS;

EID: 41349098830     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T07-043.1     Document Type: Article

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