Relations between fish abundances, summer temperatures, and forest harvest in a northern Minnesota stream system from 1997 to 2007

Ecology of Freshwater Fish

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 63-73

  Merten, E C ^a   Hemstad, N A ^b   Eggert, S L ^c   Johnson, L B ^d   Kolka, R K ^c   Newman, R M ^a   Vondracek, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b Inver Hills Community College   (United States)

^c USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Basin scale; Forest harvest; Stream warming; Temperature

Indexed keywords

CULAEA INCONSTANS; PHOXINUS EOS; SALVELINUS FONTINALIS;

EID: 77949895332     PISSN: 09066691     EISSN: 16000633     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0633.2009.00389.x     Document Type: Article

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