Swimming performance and fishway model passage success of Rio Grande silvery minnow

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 139, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 433-448

  Bestgen, Kevin R ^a   Mefford, Brent ^b   Bundy, Jay M ^a   Walford, Cameron D ^a   Compton, Robert I ^a  

^a Colorado State University ^*  (United States)

^b U S BUREAU OF RECLAMATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BED ROUGHNESS; BODY SIZE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; CYPRINID; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FATIGUE; FLOW VELOCITY; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SWIMMING; SWIMMING BEHAVIOR; THRESHOLD; WATER TEMPERATURE;

HYBOGNATHUS; HYBOGNATHUS AMARUS;

EID: 79955143875     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T09-085.1     Document Type: Article

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