Regional variability in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) riverscapes: A simple landscape ecology model explaining the large variability in size of salmon runs across Gaspé watersheds, Canada

Ecology of Freshwater Fish

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 144-156

  Kim, M ^a   Lapointe, M ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Landscape ecology; Productive habitat; Salmo salar; Salmon runs; Segment scale; Spatial complementarity

Indexed keywords

SALMO SALAR;

EID: 79951483013     PISSN: 09066691     EISSN: 16000633     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0633.2010.00471.x     Document Type: Article

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