Upper thermal limits to migration in adult Chinook salmon: Evidence from the Klamath River basin

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 139, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1091-1108

  Strange, Joshua S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Yurok Tribal Fisheries Program   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; BODY TEMPERATURE; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; HYPOXIA; INHIBITION; MIGRATION; MOVEMENT; RIVER BASIN; RIVER DISCHARGE; SALMONID; TAGGING; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WATER TEMPERATURE;

KLAMATH BASIN; UNITED STATES;

ONCORHYNCHUS TSHAWYTSCHA;

EID: 79954558537     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T09-171.1     Document Type: Article

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