Influence of spring floods on year-class strength of fall- and spring-spawning salmonids in catskill mountain streams

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 138, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 200-210

  Warren, Dana R ^a   Ernst, Anne G ^b   Baldigo, Barry P ^b  

^a Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; ASSESSMENT METHOD; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DOMINANCE; EMERGENCE; FLOOD; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; MAGNITUDE; MOUNTAIN REGION; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SALMONID; SNOWMELT; SPAWNING; SPRING (SEASON); STREAM; SURVIVAL; SYMPATRY;

APPALACHIANS; CATSKILL MOUNTAINS; NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS; SALMO TRUTTA; SALMONIDAE; SALVELINUS FONTINALIS;

EID: 77956251620     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T08-046.1     Document Type: Article

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