Fish body condition and recruitment success reflect antecedent flows in an Australian dryland river

Fisheries Science

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 841-847

  Balcombe, Stephen R ^a   Lobegeiger, Jaye S ^b   Marshall, Sharon M ^b   Marshall, Jonathan C ^b   Ly, Diana ^a   Jones, Darryl N ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT   (Australia)

Author keywords

Antecedent hydrology; Fish condition; Flow variability; Recruitment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864086185     PISSN: 09199268     EISSN: 14442906     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12562-012-0519-z     Document Type: Article

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