Meso-scale movement and mortality patterns of juvenile coho salmon and steelhead trout migrating through a coastal fjord

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 96, Issue 2-3, 2013, Pages 325-339

  Melnychuk, Michael C ^a,b   Christensen, Villy ^a   Walters, Carl J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Active tracking; Biotelemetry; Detection probability; Instantaneous mortality; Migratory route; Survival

Indexed keywords

BIOTELEMETRY; FJORD; HYDROPHONE; JUVENILE; MESOSCALE MOTION; MIGRATION ROUTE; MORTALITY; MOVEMENT; PROBABILITY; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SALMONID FISHERY; SURVIVAL; TRANSECT;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; HOWE SOUND;

ONCORHYNCHUS; ONCORHYNCHUS KISUTCH; ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS; PISCES; SALMONIDAE;

EID: 84872192496     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10641-012-9976-6     Document Type: Article

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