Changes to the productivity and trophic structure of a sockeye salmon rearing lake in british columbia

North American Journal of Fisheries Management

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 433-444

  Brahney, Janice ^a,c   Routledge, Richard ^a   Bos, Darren G ^a,b   Pellatt, Marlow G ^a,b  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b PARKS CANADA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY; FISHERY PRODUCTION; HEADWATER; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; PLANKTON; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION SIZE; REARING; SALMONID; SEDIMENT CORE; SODIUM; TROPHIC STRUCTURE; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; LONG LAKE; NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

INVERTEBRATA; ONCORHYNCHUS; ONCORHYNCHUS NERKA;

EID: 79955095730     PISSN: 02755947     EISSN: 15488675     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/M09-183.1     Document Type: Article

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