Relationships between mesoscale morphological units, stream hydraulics and Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) spawning habitat on the Lower Yuba River, California

Geomorphology

Volumn 100, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 527-548

  Moir, Hamish J ^a   Pasternack, Gregory B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chinook salmon; Fluvial geomorphology; Hydraulics; Morphological units; Spawning; Two dimensional modeling

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL HYDRAULICS; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; FROUDE NUMBER; GRAVEL BED STREAM; HYDRODYNAMICS; MORPHOLOGY; RIFFLE; SALMONID; SPAWNING GROUND; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; YUBA RIVER;

ONCORHYNCHUS TSHAWYTSCHA;

EID: 45849110733     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2008.02.001     Document Type: Article

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