Assessing freshwater and marine environmental influences on life-stage-specific survival rates of Snake River spring-summer Chinook salmon and steelhead

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 141, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 121-138

  Haeseker, Steven L ^a   McCann, Jerry A ^b   Tuomikoski, Jack ^b   Chockley, Brandon ^b  

^a US Fish and Wildlife Service   (United States)

^b Fish Passage Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; MIGRATION; MORTALITY; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SALMONID; SMOLT; SURVIVAL;

SNAKE BASIN; UNITED STATES;

ONCORHYNCHUS; ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS; ONCORHYNCHUS TSHAWYTSCHA;

EID: 84856677450     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00028487.2011.652009     Document Type: Article

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