Estimating spawning habitat availability in flooded areas of the river Waal, The Netherlands

River Research and Applications

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 487-498

  van de Wolfshaar, K E ^a,b   de Winter, A C Ruizeveld ^a   Straatsma, M W ^b   van den Brink, N G M ^c   de Leeuw, J J ^a,d  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c Institute for Marine Resources and Ecosystem Studies ^*  (Netherlands)

^d INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Ecohydraulics; Floodplain; Habitat suitability; Recruitment; River; Spawning

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; CYPRINID; ECOHYDROLOGY; ESTIMATION METHOD; FLOODPLAIN; FLOW VELOCITY; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; HYDRODYNAMICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); RIVER FLOW; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPAWNING; VEGETATION TYPE; WATER DEPTH; WATER TEMPERATURE;

NETHERLANDS; WAAL RIVER;

ABRAMIS BRAMA; ALBURNUS ALBURNUS; HYPEROGLYPHE POROSA; RUTILUS RUTILUS; SANDER LUCIOPERCA;

EID: 77951493102     PISSN: 15351459     EISSN: 15351467     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rra.1306     Document Type: Article

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