Effects of river temperature and climate warming on stock-specific survival of adult migrating Fraser River sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka)

Global Change Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 99-114

  Martins, Eduardo G ^a   Hinch, Scott G ^a   Patterson, David A ^b   Hague, Merran J ^b   Cooke, Steven J ^c   Miller, Kristina M ^d   Lapointe, Michael F ^e   English, Karl K ^f   Farrell, Anthony P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d PACIFIC BIOLOGICAL STATION   (Canada)

^e Pacific Salmon Commission   (Canada)

^f LGL LIMITED   (Canada)

Author keywords

Capture mark recapture; Climate change; Large scale telemetry; Ocean and river capture; Pacific salmon; Stochastic simulations; Upriver migration

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; MORTALITY; POPULATION MIGRATION; RIVER WATER; SALMONID; SALMONID FISHERY; SPAWNING POPULATION; STOCHASTICITY; SURVIVAL; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WATER TEMPERATURE;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; FRASER RIVER;

ONCORHYNCHUS; ONCORHYNCHUS NERKA;

EID: 78649774416     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2010.02241.x     Document Type: Article

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