Landscape-Scale Evaluation of Asymmetric Interactions between Brown Trout and Brook Trout Using Two-Species Occupancy Models

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 142, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 353-361

  Wagner, Tyler ^a   Deweber, Jefferson T ^a   Detar, Jason ^b   Sweka, John A ^c  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission   (United States)

^c Northeast Fishery Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ASYMMETRY; CATCHMENT; COEXISTENCE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; INVASIVE SPECIES; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; NATIVE SPECIES; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SALMONID; STREAMWATER; WILD POPULATION;

UNITED STATES;

PISCES; SALMO TRUTTA; SALMONIDAE; SALVELINUS FONTINALIS;

EID: 84876340244     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00028487.2012.734892     Document Type: Article

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