Climate and land-use changes affecting river sediment and brown trout in alpine countries-a review

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 232-242

  Scheurer, Karin ^a   Alewell, Christine ^a   Bänninger, Dominik ^a   Burkhardt Holm, Patricia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Alpine region; Brown trout; Climate change; Clogging erosion; Fish health; Global change; Gravel spawning; Hydrology; Land use change; Precipitation; Reproduction; Rivers; Salmo trutta; Salmonids; Suspended sediment

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; CATCH STATISTICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; EROSION RATE; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; GLOBAL CHANGE; GRAVEL; HIGH TEMPERATURE; LAND USE CHANGE; LITERATURE REVIEW; PERMAFROST; POPULATION DECLINE; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REFORESTATION; REPRODUCTIVE PRODUCTIVITY; RIVER DISCHARGE; SALMONID; SPAWNING; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ANIMAL; CLIMATE; REVIEW; RIVER; SEDIMENT; TROUT;

ANIMALS; CLIMATE; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; RIVERS; TROUT;

ALPS; EURASIA; EUROPE;

SALMO TRUTTA; SALMONIDAE;

EID: 61349129061     PISSN: 09441344     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-008-0075-3     Document Type: Review

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