Thermal controls of Yellowstone cutthroat trout and invasive fishes under climate change

Global Change Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 3069-3081

  Al Chokhachy, Robert ^a   Alder, Jay ^b   Hostetler, Steven ^b   Gresswell, Robert ^a   Shepard, Bradley ^c  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Wildlife Conservation Society   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Greater Yellowstone; Growth; Non natives; Trout

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; GROWING SEASON; GROWTH RATE; GROWTH RESPONSE; INVASIVE SPECIES; LIMITING FACTOR; SALMONID; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WARMING;

GREATER YELLOWSTONE ECOSYSTEM; UNITED STATES;

ONCORHYNCHUS CLARKII; PISCES; SALMONIDAE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLIMATE CHANGE; GREATER YELLOWSTONE; GROWTH; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INTRODUCED SPECIES; NON-NATIVES; RIVER; TEMPERATURE; TROUT; UNITED STATES;

CLIMATE CHANGE; GREATER YELLOWSTONE; GROWTH; NON-NATIVES; TROUT;

ANIMALS; CLIMATE CHANGE; IDAHO; INTRODUCED SPECIES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONTANA; NEVADA; RIVERS; TEMPERATURE; TROUT; WYOMING;

EID: 84883555834     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12262     Document Type: Article

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