Habitat effects on depth and velocity frequency distributions: Implications for modeling hydraulic variation and fish habitat suitability in streams

Geomorphology

Volumn 130, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 127-135

  Rosenfeld, Jordan S ^a   Campbell, Kate ^b   Leung, Elaine S ^b   Bernhardt, Joanna ^b   Post, John ^c  

^a Ministry of Environment British Columbia   (Canada)

^b BC Conservation Foundation   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Flow convergence; Frequency distributions; Habitat modeling; Hydraulic geometry; Velocity depth distributions

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIATION; FISH; FLOW VELOCITY; HABITAT TYPE; HYDRAULIC PROPERTY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL VARIATION; STREAM CHANNEL; STREAMFLOW; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

NEW ZEALAND;

SALMONIDAE;

EID: 79956152103     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2011.03.007     Document Type: Article

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