Regulated discharge produces substantial demographic changes on four typical fish species of a small salmonid stream

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 609, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 59-70

  Ovidio, Michaël ^a   Capra, Hervé ^b   Philippart, Jean Claude ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

Biomass; Fish community; Habitat modelling; Minimum flow; Salmonid stream; Size composition

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; ELECTRIC POWER PLANTS; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; ENERGY RESOURCES; FISH; FLOOD CONTROL; HYDROELECTRIC POWER PLANTS; POWER PLANTS; RIVER CONTROL;

(+ MOD 2N) OPERATION; ANNUAL FLOW; DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGES; FISH SPECIES; SALMONID; WATER ABSTRACTION;

HYDROELECTRIC POWER;

ABUNDANCE; BIOMASS; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION; DISCHARGE; ELECTRICAL METHOD; FISHING; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; HYDROELECTRIC POWER PLANT; MODELING; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION ESTIMATION; SALMONID; STREAMFLOW; WATER TEMPERATURE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; LHOMME RIVER; WESTERN EUROPE;

SALMONIDAE;

EID: 45749084864     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-008-9399-8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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