Fish use of intermittent watercourses draining agricultural lands in the upper Willamette river valley, Oregon

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 138, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1302-1313

  Colvin, Randall ^a   Giannico, Guillermo R ^a   Li, Judith ^a   Boyer, Kathryn L ^b   Gerth, William J ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b USDA NRCS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AGRICULTURAL LAND; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ELECTROFISHING; FLOODPLAIN; HABITAT QUALITY; HABITAT USE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; JUVENILE; NATIVE SPECIES; NURSERY GROUND; REARING; SAMPLING; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPAWNING GROUND; SPAWNING POPULATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TRADE-ENVIRONMENT RELATIONS; WATER FLOW; WATERSHED;

OREGON; UNITED STATES; WILLAMETTE VALLEY;

CYPRINIDAE;

EID: 79955132359     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T08-150.1     Document Type: Article

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