Survival rates and movement of hatchery-reared razorback suckers in the upper Colorado River basin, Utah and Colorado

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 139, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1478-1499

  Zelasko, Koreen A ^a   Bestgen, Kevin R ^a   White, Gary C ^b  

^a Colorado State University ^*  (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; CYPRINID; DATA SET; ENDANGERED SPECIES; HATCHERY; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; MONITORING SYSTEM; MOVEMENT; REARING; RIVER BASIN; SAMPLING; SPECIES CONSERVATION; STOCKING DENSITY; STREAMWATER; SURVIVAL;

COLORADO; COLORADO BASIN [NORTH AMERICA]; UNITED STATES; UTAH;

XYRAUCHEN; XYRAUCHEN TEXANUS;

EID: 79954473228     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T09-107.1     Document Type: Article

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