Transporting juvenile salmonids around dams impairs adult migration

Ecological Applications

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1888-1900

  Keefer, Matthew L ^a   Caudill, Christopher C ^a   Peery, Christopher A ^a   Lee, Steven R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

Chinook salmon; Delayed effects; Differential mortality; Juvenile transportation; Longdistance migration; Mitigation; Oncorhynchus; Sequential imprinting; Steelhead; Unintended consequences

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; ONCORHYNCHUS; ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS; ONCORHYNCHUS TSHAWYTSCHA; SALMONIDAE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; LEARNING; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; RAINBOW TROUT; RIVER; SALMON; TELEMETRY; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; UNITED STATES;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; HOMING BEHAVIOR; IMPRINTING (PSYCHOLOGY); NORTHWESTERN UNITED STATES; ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS; RIVERS; SALMON; TELEMETRY; TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 63249093340     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/07-0710.1     Document Type: Article

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