Ecology, evolution, and conservation of lake-migratory brook trout: A perspective from pristine populations

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 137, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1192-1202

  Fraser, Dylan J ^a,b   Bernatchez, Louis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CONNECTIVITY; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; EVOLUTION; HABITAT USE; LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENT; MIGRATORY SPECIES; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRISTINE ENVIRONMENT; REINTRODUCTION; SALMONID; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

CANADA; MISTASSINI LAKE; NORTH AMERICA; QUEBEC [CANADA];

SALMONIDAE; SALVELINUS FONTINALIS;

EID: 49049087302     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T05-251.1     Document Type: Review

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