A century of hydrological variability and trends in the Fraser River Basin

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Déry, Stephen J ^a   Hernández Henríquez, Marco A ^a   Owens, Philip N ^a   Parkes, Margot W ^a   Petticrew, Ellen L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

British Columbia; climate variability; Fraser River; salmon; streamflow

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862142123     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/7/2/024019     Document Type: Article

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