Examining the conflict between smolting and precocious male maturation in spring (stream-type) Chinook salmon

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 139, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 564-578

  Larsen, Donald A ^a   Beckman, Brian R ^a   Cooper, Kathleen A ^b  

^a NORTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE AT MATURITY; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONDITION FACTOR; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; GROWTH RATE; HATCHERY; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MATURATION; MIGRATION; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASMA; PRECOCIALITY; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; RESIDENT POPULATION; SALMONID; SMOLT; SPAWNING GROUND;

ONCORHYNCHUS TSHAWYTSCHA; PISCES; SALMONIDAE;

EID: 78650677414     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T08-209.1     Document Type: Article

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