Evidence of recent climate change within the historic range of rio grande cutthroat trout: Implications for management and future persistence

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 141, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1045-1059

  Zeigler, Matthew P ^a   Todd, Andrew S ^b   Caldwell, Colleen A ^a  

^a NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; AIR TEMPERATURE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; HISTORICAL ECOLOGY; HYDROLOGICAL REGIME; ISOLATED POPULATION; LIFE HISTORY; PERSISTENCE; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RANGE SIZE; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SALMONID; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

ONCORHYNCHUS; ONCORHYNCHUS CLARKII VIRGINALIS; SALMONIDAE;

EID: 84863876413     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00028487.2012.676589     Document Type: Article

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