Local habitat, watershed, and biotic factors influencing the spread of hybridization between native westslope cutthroat trout and introduced rainbow trout

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 138, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1036-1051

  Muhlfeld, Clint C ^a   McMahon, Thomas E ^b   Boyer, Matthew C ^c   Gresswell, Robert E ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WILDLIFE AND PARKS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; BIOTIC FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; GENETIC MARKER; HYBRIDIZATION; LAND USE CHANGE; LOGISTICS; NATIVE SPECIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RIVER SYSTEM; SALMONID; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WATER TEMPERATURE;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; FLATHEAD RIVER; MONTANA; UNITED STATES;

KATHETOSTOMA GIGANTEUM; ONCORHYNCHUS; ONCORHYNCHUS CLARKII; ONCORHYNCHUS CLARKII LEWISI; ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS; PISCES; SALMONIDAE;

EID: 70349488267     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T08-235.1     Document Type: Article

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