Ecological, landscape, and climatic regulation of sediment geochemistry in North American sockeye salmon nursery lakes: Insights for paleoecological salmon investigations

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1733-1745

  Selbie, Daniel T ^a,g   Finney, Bruce P ^b,h   Barto, David ^c   Bunting, Lynda ^d   Chen, Guangjie ^a   Leavitt, Peter R ^d   Maclsaac, Erland A ^e   Schindler, Daniel E ^f   Shapley, Mark D ^b   Gregory Eaves, Irene ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^c ALASKA DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND GAME   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

^e SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^g Cultus Lake Salmon Research Laboratory   (Canada)

^h Nucl Eng Idaho State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; NURSERY GROUND; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; RECONSTRUCTION; SALMONID; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; VEGETATION TYPE;

ONCORHYNCHUS NERKA;

EID: 67949097238     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2009.54.5.1733     Document Type: Article

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