Evaluating habitat effects on population status: Influence of habitat restoration on spring-run Chinook salmon

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1576-1592

  Honea, Jon M ^a,b   Jorgensen, Jeffrey C ^c   McClure, Michelle M ^c   Cooney, Thomas D ^c   Engie, Kim ^b,c   Holzer, Damon M ^c   Hilborn, Ray ^d  

^a NORTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^c ALASKA FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Columbia River; Life cycle; Modelling; Oncorhynchus tshawytscha; Shiraz

Indexed keywords

ONCORHYNCHUS; ONCORHYNCHUS TSHAWYTSCHA;

EID: 66749184708     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2009.02208.x     Document Type: Article

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