An investigation into the poor survival of an endangered coho salmon population

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Chittenden, Cedar M ^a,b   Melnychuk, Michael C ^c   Welch, David W ^d   McKinley, R Scott ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b Fisheries and Oceans Canada   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d Kintama Research Corporation   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; HABITAT QUALITY; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; ONCORYNCHUS KISUTCH; ORGANISM GROUP SIZE; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MIGRATION; POPULATION MOVEMENT PATTERN; SALMON; SMOLT; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES HABITAT; SURVIVAL RATE; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ONCORHYNCHUS KISUTCH; PROBABILITY; RIVERS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

ONCORHYNCHUS KISUTCH;

EID: 77956283557     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0010869     Document Type: Article

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