Climate change impacts on flood frequency, intensity, and timing may affect trout species in Sagehen Creek, California

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 139, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1657-1664

  Meyers, Erica M ^a   Dobrowski, Bridget ^a   Tague, Christina L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ANGLING; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOHYDROLOGY; FLOOD FREQUENCY; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION SIZE; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; TELEOST; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION;

CALIFORNIA; SAGEHEN BASIN; UNITED STATES;

ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS; SALMONIDAE; SALVELINUS FONTINALIS;

EID: 79954469271     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T09-192.1     Document Type: Article

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