Movement and mortality of adult brown trout in the Motupiko River, New Zealand: Effects of water temperature, flow, and flooding

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 139, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 137-146

  Young, Roger G ^a   Wilkinson, Jeremy ^a,b   Hay, Joe ^a   Hayes, John W ^a  

^a CAWTHRON INSTITUTE   (New Zealand)

^b LUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Luxembourg)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; FLOODING; MORTALITY; MOVEMENT; RADIOTELEMETRY; SALMONID; TRACKING; WATER FLOW; WATER QUALITY; WATER TEMPERATURE;

MOTUPIKO RIVER; NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND; TASMAN;

SALMO TRUTTA; SALMONIDAE;

EID: 77955069067     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T08-148.1     Document Type: Article

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