Flows, droughts, and aliens: Factors affecting the fish assemblage in a Sierra Nevada, California, stream

Ecological Applications

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1146-1161

  Kiernan, Joseph D ^a,b   Moyle, Peter B ^b  

^a SOUTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Assemblage structure; Community ecology; Drought; Fish conservation; Flow regime; Introduced species; Long term data; Martis Creek; Persistence

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DATA SET; DROUGHT STRESS; HABITAT CONSERVATION; INTRODUCED SPECIES; LONG-TERM CHANGE; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STOCHASTICITY; STREAMFLOW;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CLASSIFICATION; DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FISH; INTRODUCED SPECIES; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RIVER; TIME; UNITED STATES; WATER FLOW;

ANIMALS; BIOMASS; CALIFORNIA; DROUGHTS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FISHES; INTRODUCED SPECIES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RIVERS; TIME FACTORS; WATER MOVEMENTS;

CALIFORNIA; SIERRA NEVADA [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS; PISCES;

EID: 84862979494     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/11-1047.1     Document Type: Article

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