Nutrient Restoration Using Atlantic Salmon Carcasses as a Component of Habitat Management in Scottish Highland Streams

Salmonid Fisheries: Freshwater Habitat Management

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 228-241

  Nislow, Keith ^a   Kennedy, Brian ^b   Armstrong, John ^c   Collen, Peter ^c   Keay, Janey ^c   Mckelvey, Simon ^d  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^c MARINE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^d Aultgowrie Cottage   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atlantic salmon carcasses extensive invertebrate colonisation and increased IA; Carcass colonisation by aquatic macroinvertebrates; Food web incorporation of carcass derived nutrients; Invertebrate colonisation of carcasses and carcass addition on IA; Marine derived nutrients (MDN) from carcasses of adult Pacific salmon in Pacific Northwest of North America; Migratory Atlantic salmon role in stream ecosystems; Nitrogen isotope ratios of juvenile salmon in December; Nutrient restoration using Atlantic salmon carcasses in Scottish highland streams; Stable isotope invertebrate colonisation study (SIC)

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053647534     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444323337.ch11     Document Type: Chapter

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