Variable effects of biological and environmental processes on Coho salmon marine survival in southeast Alaska

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 138, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 846-860

  Malick, Michael J ^a   Adkison, Milo D ^a   Wertheimer, Alex C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CORRELATION; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; HATCHERY; LOW PRESSURE; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SALMONID; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; STOCK IDENTIFICATION; SURVIVAL;

ALASKA; UNITED STATES;

ONCORHYNCHUS GORBUSCHA; ONCORHYNCHUS KETA; ONCORHYNCHUS KISUTCH;

EID: 79955092366     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T08-177.1     Document Type: Article

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