Twenty years of hydropower regulation in the River Alta: Long-term changes in abundance of juvenile and adult Atlantic salmon

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 609, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 9-23

  Ugedal, Ola ^a   Næsje, Tor F ^a   Thorstad, Eva B ^a   Forseth, Torbjørn ^a   Saksgård, Laila M ^a   Heggberget, Tor G ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Atlantic salmon; Electrofishing; Environmental influence; River regulation; Winter conditions

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; FLOOD CONTROL; POPULATION STATISTICS; PRODUCTION; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES; WATER LEVELS;

(SPM) CLASSES; ATLANTIC SALMON (AS); BUSINESS MEDIA; ELECTROFISHING; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONING; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCES; ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLES; FLOW VARIABLES; GENERAL (CO); LATITUDE (CO); LONG-TERM CHANGES; PARTIAL RECOVERY; POWER STATIONS; SPRINGER (CO); WATER ABSTRACTION;

FISH;

ABUNDANCE; ADULT; ANGLING; CLIMATE EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FISHING; FLOW REGULATION; HYDROELECTRIC POWER; JUVENILE; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; MIGRATION; MORTALITY; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DENSITY; POWER GENERATION; SALMONID; SPAWNING; WATER LEVEL; WINTER;

ALTA RIVER; EURASIA; EUROPE; FINNMARK; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA;

SALMO SALAR;

EID: 45749097378     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-008-9404-2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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