Assessing spawning ground hydraulic suitability for Chinese sturgeon (Acipenser sinensis) from horizontal mean vorticity in Yangtze River

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 220, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1443-1448

  Wang, Yuankun ^a   Xia, Ziqiang ^a  

^a HOHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Chinese sturgeon; Horizontal mean vorticity; Spawning ground; Yangtze River

Indexed keywords

CHINESE STURGEON; DELFT3D; DISTRIBUTION PATTERNS; EGG FERTILIZATIONS; FERTILIZED EGGS; FIELD STATE; FIELD-MEASURED DATUM; FLOW MODELS; HORIZONTAL MEAN VORTICITY; HYDRAULIC ENVIRONMENTS; MASS FIELDS; MIGRATION PATTERNS; MODEL SIMULATIONS; SCIENTIFIC DATABASE; SPAWNING GROUND; THREE-GORGES RESERVOIRS; UPPER LIMITS; YANGTZE RIVER;

DAMS; FLOW SIMULATION; HYDRAULICS; RIVERS;

VORTICITY;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; FERTILIZATION (REPRODUCTION); FLOW MODELING; MIGRATORY BEHAVIOR; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPAWNING GROUND; TELEOST; THREE-DIMENSIONAL FLOW;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; GEZHOUBA DAM; HUBEI; YANGTZE RIVER;

ACIPENSER SINENSIS;

EID: 64949197048     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2009.03.003     Document Type: Article

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