Beaver in tidal Marshes: Dam effects on low-tide channel pools and fish use of estuarine habitat

Wetlands

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 401-410

  Hood, W Gregory ^a  

^a Skagit River System Cooperative   (United States)

Author keywords

Castor canadensis; Ecosystemengineer; Juvenile salmon; Oligohaline wetlands; Tidal scrub shrub wetlands

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ECOSYSTEM ENGINEERING; ENDANGERED SPECIES; HERB; POOL; POPULATION DENSITY; SALMONID; SCRUB; SHRUB;

SKAGIT DELTA; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

ANIMALIA; CASTOR CANADENSIS; ONCORHYNCHUS TSHAWYTSCHA;

EID: 84863981161     PISSN: 02775212     EISSN: 19436246     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13157-012-0294-8     Document Type: Article

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