Complex influences of low-head dams and artificial wetlands on fishes in a Colorado River tributary system

Fisheries Management and Ecology

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 457-467

  Beatty, R J ^a   Rahel, F J ^a   Hubert, W A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial wetlands; Dams; Fish; Fragmentation; Impoundment; Invasive species

Indexed keywords

COLONIZATION; COMPLEXITY; DAM; FISH; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; IMPOUNDMENT; INVASIVE SPECIES; NATIVE SPECIES; SPAWNING; TRIBUTARY; WETLAND;

COLORADO RIVER [NORTH AMERICA]; MUDDY CREEK; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WYOMING;

CATOSTOMUS COMMERSONI; CATOSTOMUS COMMERSONII; CATOSTOMUS DISCOBOLUS; GILA ROBUSTA; HYBOGNATHUS STRAMINEUS; PIMEPHALES PROMELAS; PISCES; RICHARDSONIUS; RICHARDSONIUS BALTEATUS;

EID: 70649110160     PISSN: 0969997X     EISSN: 13652400     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2400.2009.00695.x     Document Type: Article

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