Are wild populations ideally distributed? Variations in density-dependent habitat use by age class in juvenile Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)

Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Volumn 65, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1667-1680

  Gibson, A Jamie F ^a   Bowlby, Heather D ^a   Amiro, Peter G ^a  

^a FISHERIES AND OCEANS CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AGE CLASS; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; HABITAT QUALITY; HABITAT USE; JUVENILE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION GROWTH; SALMONID; WILD POPULATION;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; NOVA SCOTIA; STEWIACKE RIVER;

SALMO SALAR;

EID: 48949091947     PISSN: 0706652X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/F08-087     Document Type: Article

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