Density-dependent regulation of brook trout population dynamics along a core-periphery distribution gradient in a central Appalachian watershed

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Huntsman, Brock M ^a   Petty, J Todd ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BROOK TROUT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); HABITAT STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DENSITY DEPENDENCE; POPULATION DISPERSAL; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION GROWTH; SPECIES HABITAT; SPECIES RICHNESS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TROUT; UNITED STATES; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER FLOW; WATER TEMPERATURE; WATERSHED; ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; GEOGRAPHY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; APPALACHIAN REGION; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; TROUT;

EID: 84897512128     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0091673     Document Type: Article

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