Land use associations with distributions of declining native fishes in the upper Colorado River basin

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 140, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 646-658

  Dauwalter, Daniel C ^a   Wenger, Seth J ^a   Gelwicks, Kevin R ^b   Fesenmyer, Kurt A ^a  

^a Trout Unlimited   (United States)

^b WYOMING GAME AND FISH DEPARTMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CONSERVATION PLANNING; CYPRINID; GAS WELL; HABITAT CONSERVATION; LAND USE CHANGE; NATIVE SPECIES; OIL WELL; POPULATION DECLINE; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; RIPARIAN VEGETATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

COLORADO BASIN [NORTH AMERICA]; UNITED STATES; WYOMING;

CATOSTOMUS COMMERSONI; CATOSTOMUS COMMERSONII; CATOSTOMUS DISCOBOLUS; CATOSTOMUS LATIPINNIS; GILA ROBUSTA; PISCES;

EID: 79959356038     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00028487.2011.587753     Document Type: Article

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