Dams in the Cadillac Desert: Downstream effects in a geomorphic context

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1249, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 227-246

  Sabo, John L ^a   Bestgen, Kevin ^b   Graf, Will ^c   Sinha, Tushar ^d   Wohl, Ellen E ^e  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Colorado State University ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^d North Carolina State University   (United States)

^e Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Dam; Fish; Flow anomaly; Network; Nonnative species; River; Sediment; Temperature; Tributary; Valley form

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOTA; DESERT; FISH; FLOW MEASUREMENT; GEOMETRY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HABITAT; NONHUMAN; RIVER ECOSYSTEM; SEDIMENT; STORAGE; TEMPERATURE; WATER DAM;

EID: 84857566970     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2011.06411.x     Document Type: Article

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