Behaviour and thermal experience of adult sockeye salmon migrating through stratified lakes near spawning grounds: The roles of reproductive and energetic states

Ecology of Freshwater Fish

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 51-62

  Roscoe, D W ^a   Hinch, S G ^a   Cooke, S J ^b   Patterson, D A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Migration; Physiology; Salmon; Temperature; Thermoregulation

Indexed keywords

ONCORHYNCHUS; ONCORHYNCHUS NERKA;

EID: 77949885684     PISSN: 09066691     EISSN: 16000633     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0633.2009.00388.x     Document Type: Article

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