Variable responses of fish assemblages, habitat, and stability to natural-channel-design restoration in catskill mountain streams

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 139, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 449-467

  Baldigo, Barry P ^a   Ernst, Anne G ^a   Warren, Dana R ^b,d   Miller, Sarah J ^c,e  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^c NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION   (United States)

^d NORTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^e US ARMY ENGINEER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANK EROSION; BIOMASS; CHANNEL CHANGE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; HABITAT QUALITY; HABITAT RESTORATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SALMONID; STREAM CHANNEL; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; VARIANCE ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY;

APPALACHIANS; CATSKILL MOUNTAINS; NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

SALMONIDAE;

EID: 79955160295     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T08-152.1     Document Type: Article

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