Juvenile salmonid use of reconnected tidal freshwater wetlands in Grays River, lower Columbia River basin

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 139, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1211-1232

  Curtis Roegner, G ^a   Dawley, Earl W ^b   Russell, Micah ^c   Whiting, Allan ^c,d   Teel, David J ^e  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Columbia River Estuary Study Taskforce ^*  (United States)

^c Trask and Associates ^*  (United States)

^d Trask and Associates   (United States)

^e NORTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT LOSS; HABITAT RESTORATION; HABITAT USE; HATCHERY; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; JUVENILE; PASTURE; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; RIVER BASIN; SALMONID; STOCK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL; WETLAND;

GRAYS RIVER; PACIFIC NORTHWEST; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

ONCORHYNCHUS; ONCORHYNCHUS KETA; ONCORHYNCHUS KISUTCH; ONCORHYNCHUS TSHAWYTSCHA; PISCES; SALMONIDAE;

EID: 79954465193     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T09-082.1     Document Type: Article

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