Recovery of a US endangered fish

PLoS ONE

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Bain, Mark B ^a   Haley, Nancy ^a,b   Peterson, Douglas L ^a   Arend, Kristin K ^a   Mills, Kathy E ^a   Sullivan, Patrick J ^a  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^b University of Georgia ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC SPECIES; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FISH; HABITAT USE; HUDSON RIVER; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION RECOVERY; POPULATION RESEARCH; POPULATION SIZE; RIVER; SEASONAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; SHORTNOSE STURGEON; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DOMINANCE; SPECIES HABITAT; UNITED STATES; ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; TIME;

ACIPENSER BREVIROSTRUM; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FISHES; HUMANS; RIVERS; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 42449111676     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0000168     Document Type: Article

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