Estimation of Streambed Groundwater Fluxes Associated with Coaster Brook Trout Spawning Habitat

Ground Water

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 432-441

  Van Grinsven, Matthew ^a   Mayer, Alex ^a   Huckins, Casey ^b  

^a Michigan Technological University   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM SEDIMENTS; BROOK TROUT; CRITICAL FACTORS; GROUND WATER INFLOW; GROUNDWATER FLUXES; GROUNDWATER VELOCITY; HEAT TRANSFER EQUATIONS; LIFE HISTORY; MICHIGAN; MONITORING WELLS; NUMERICAL APPROXIMATIONS; RIVER BED; RIVER TEMPERATURE; STREAMBEDS; SUBSURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE DATA; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

RIVERS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; VELOCITY; WELLS;

GROUNDWATER;

GROUND WATER;

DATA INVERSION; FLOW VELOCITY; GROUNDWATER FLOW; GROUNDWATER-SURFACE WATER INTERACTION; HEAT TRANSFER; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INFILTRATION; SALMONID; SPAWNING GROUND; STREAM BED; SUBSURFACE FLOW; SUBTERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION; WELL WATER;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; TROUT;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; GROUNDWATER; REPRODUCTION; TROUT;

ARRIPIS TRUTTA; SALMONIDAE; SALVELINUS FONTINALIS;

EID: 84860369037     PISSN: 0017467X     EISSN: 17456584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.2011.00856.x     Document Type: Article

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