Recruitment and survival rate variability in fish populations: Density-dependent regulation or further evidence of environmental determinants?

Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 290-300

  Lobón Cerviá, Javier ^a  

^a MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITY DEPENDENCE; DISCHARGE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; JUVENILE; POPULATION REGULATION; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SALMONID; STREAM; SURVIVAL;

EID: 84893497708     PISSN: 0706652X     EISSN: 12057533     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/cjfas-2013-0320     Document Type: Article

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