Evaluating the Barrier Assessment Technique Derived from FishXing Software and the Upstream Movement of Brook Trout through Road Culverts

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 143, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 39-48

  Mahlum, Shad ^a   Cote, David ^b,e   Wiersma, Yolanda F ^a   Kehler, Dan ^c   Clarke, Keith D ^d  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^b MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^c PARKS CANADA   (Canada)

^d FISHERIES AND OCEANS CANADA   (Canada)

^e NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM; CULVERT; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; MOVEMENT; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SALMONID FISHERY; SOFTWARE; STREAMFLOW; TAGGING;

CANADA; NEWFOUNDLAND; NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR;

EID: 84892413197     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00028487.2013.825641     Document Type: Article

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