Estuarine and early-marine survival of transported and in-river migrant Snake River spring Chinook salmon smolts

Scientific Reports

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Rechisky, Erin L ^a   Welch, David W ^a   Porter, Aswea D ^a   Jacobs Scott, Melinda C ^a   Winchell, Paul M ^a   McKern, John L ^b  

^a Kintama Research Services Ltd   (Canada)

^b Fish Passage Solutions   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CANADA; ECOSYSTEM; ESTUARY; FISHERY; GEOGRAPHY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MARINE BIOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MIGRATION; RIVER; SALMON; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL; TELEMETRY; TIME; UNITED STATES;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; CANADA; ECOSYSTEM; ESTUARIES; FISHERIES; GEOGRAPHY; MARINE BIOLOGY; PACIFIC OCEAN; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RIVERS; SALMON; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TELEMETRY; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84862222857     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep00448     Document Type: Article

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