Combining turbine blade-strike and life cycle models to assess mitigation strategies for fish passing dams

Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Volumn 65, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1568-1585

  Ferguson, John W ^a,b   Ploskey, Gene R ^c   Leonardsson, Kjell ^b   Zabel, Richard W ^a   Lundqvist, Hans ^b  

^a NORTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^c PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY RESPONSE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DAM; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; GROWTH RATE; JUVENILE; LIFE CYCLE; MIGRATION ROUTE; MITIGATION; MORTALITY; SALMONID; TURBINE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORRBOTTEN; NORTHERN EUROPE; PITE RIVER; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN; VASTERBOTTEN; VINDEL RIVER;

SALMO SALAR; SALMO TRUTTA;

EID: 47349097826     PISSN: 0706652X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/F08-078     Document Type: Article

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