Going with the Flow: Spatial Distributions of Juvenile Coho Salmon Track an Annually Shifting Mosaic of Water Temperature

Ecosystems

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1429-1441

  Armstrong, Jonathan B ^a   Schindler, Daniel E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

behavioral thermoregulation; floodplain; flow pulse; habitat selection; resource pulse; spatial subsidy; spatio temporal variation; thermal heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ANNUAL VARIATION; COLD WATER; DISCHARGE; FISH; FLOODPLAIN; FORAGE; HABITAT; HETEROGENEITY; JUVENILE; LOW FLOW; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPAWNING; TEMPORAL VARIATION; THALWEG; THERMOREGULATION; WARM WATER; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ALASKA; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; ONCORHYNCHUS KISUTCH; ONCORHYNCHUS NERKA;

EID: 84888014460     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: 14350629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-013-9693-9     Document Type: Article

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