Modeling the effects of potential salinity shifts on the recovery of striped bass in the Savannah River estuary, Georgia-South Carolina, United States

Environmental Management

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 753-765

  Reinert, Thomas R ^a,c   Peterson, James T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c FISH AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian belief network; Decision analysis; Early life history survival; Morone saxatilis; Salinity; Striped bass

Indexed keywords

EARLY LIFE HISTORY SURVIVAL; MORONE SAXATILIS; STRIPED BASS;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; ESTUARIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; RESTORATION; RIVERS;

SALINITY MEASUREMENT;

ABUNDANCE; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BREEDING SEASON; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EGG PRODUCTION; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; LARVA; LIFE HISTORY; NURSERY GROUND; PERCID; POPULATION DECLINE; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SALINITY; SPAWNING; STOCK ENHANCEMENT; SURVIVAL;

ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION; ESTUARY; SALINITY; STRIPED BASS; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; BASS; GEORGIA; LARVA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OVUM; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RIVERS; SALINITY; SOUTH CAROLINA;

GEORGIA; NORTH AMERICA; SAVANNAH ESTUARY; UNITED STATES;

MORONE; MORONE SAXATILIS;

EID: 42449153738     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-008-9082-x     Document Type: Article

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