Streamflow reductions and habitat drying affect growth, survival, and recruitment of brassy minnow across a Great Plains riverscape

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 139, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1566-1583

  Falke, Jeffrey A ^a,c   Bestgen, Kevin R ^b   Fausch, Kurt D ^a  

^a Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery   (United States)

^b US Environmental Protection Agency ^*  (United States)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BACKWATER; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE EFFECT; CYPRINID; DROUGHT; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; FLOW MODELING; GROWTH RATE; GROWTH RESPONSE; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT STRUCTURE; LARVA; OTOLITH; PERSISTENCE; PUMPING; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REFUGE; RESERVOIR; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPAWNING GROUND; STREAMFLOW; SURVIVAL; WATER STORAGE;

ARIKAREE RIVER; COLORADO; GREAT PLAINS; UNITED STATES;

HYBOGNATHUS HANKINSONI;

EID: 78650455692     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T09-143.1     Document Type: Article

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