Close encounters with a fish screen III: Behavior, performance, physiological stress responses, and recovery of adult delta smelt exposed to two-vector flows near a fish screen

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 139, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 713-726

  Young, Paciencia S ^a   Swanson, Christina ^a   Cech Jr , Joseph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FISH; MORTALITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SWIMMING; VELOCITY; VULNERABILITY; WATER FLOW;

CALIFORNIA; SACRAMENTO DELTA; SAN JOAQUIN DELTA; UNITED STATES;

HYPOMESUS TRANSPACIFICUS;

EID: 79955158874     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T09-029.1     Document Type: Article

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