Sediment and salmon: The role of spawning sockeye salmon in annual bed load transport characteristics in small, interior streams of British Columbia

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 139, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 758-767

  Macdonald, J Stevenson ^a   King, Cher A ^b   Herunter, Herb ^c  

^a Fisheries and Oceans Canada   (Canada)

^b Simon Fraser University ^*  (Canada)

^c SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEDLOAD; BIOACCUMULATION; FEEDBACK MECHANISM; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; FLOOD; GRAIN SIZE; MOBILIZATION; PITFALL TRAP; POPULATION DENSITY; SALMONID; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SPAWNING; THALWEG; VELOCITY; WATERSHED;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA;

ONCORHYNCHUS; ONCORHYNCHUS NERKA; SALMONIDAE;

EID: 79955159311     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T08-219.1     Document Type: Article

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