Linking landscape-level change to habitat quality: An evaluation of restoration actions on the freshwater habitat of spring-run Chinook salmon

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1560-1575

  Jorgensen, Jeffrey C ^a   Honea, Jon M ^a   McClure, Michelle M ^a   Cooney, Thomas D ^a   Engie, Kim ^a   Holzer, Damon M ^a  

^a ALASKA FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian Model Averaging; Chinook salmon; Columbia River; Habitat; Land use; Oncorhynchus tshawytscha; Restoration; Wenatchee

Indexed keywords

ONCORHYNCHUS TSHAWYTSCHA;

EID: 66749126726     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2009.02207.x     Document Type: Article

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