Steelhead life history on California's central coast: Insights from a state-dependent model

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 138, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 532-548

  Satterthwaite, William H ^a   Beakes, Michael P ^a,b   Collins, Erin M ^c   Swank, David R ^a,b   Merz, Joseph E ^d,e   Titus, Obert G ^c   Sogard, Susan M ^b   Mangel, Marc ^a  

^a University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

^b SOUTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND GAME   (United States)

^d Cramer Fish Sciences   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONE; EMIGRATION; LIFE HISTORY THEORY; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MATURATION; PARAMETERIZATION; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; RIVER WATER; SALMONID; SMOLT; SPAWNING; STREAMWATER; THRESHOLD; WATERSHED;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS;

EID: 77954295545     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T08-164.1     Document Type: Article

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