Restoring native fish assemblages to a regulated California stream using the natural flow regime concept

Ecological Applications

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1472-1482

  Kiernan, Joseph D ^a,b   Moyle, Peter B ^b   Crain, Patrick K ^b,c  

^a SOUTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c ICF INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Assemblage structure; California; Fish conservation; Instream flow; Introduced species; Mediterranean climate; Putah creek; Stream fishes; USA

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DAM; FISH; FLOW PATTERN; INTRODUCED SPECIES; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; NATIVE SPECIES; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SPECIES CONSERVATION; STREAMFLOW; STREAMWATER;

CALIFORNIA; PUTAH CREEK; UNITED STATES;

PISCES;

EID: 84864128545     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/11-0480.1     Document Type: Article

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