Predicting road culvert passability for migratory fishes

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1414-1424

  Januchowski Hartley, Stephanie R ^a   Diebel, Matthew ^b   Doran, Patrick J ^c   Mcintyre, Peter B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (United States)

^c THE NATURE CONSERVANCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Distribution maps; Ecological connectivity; Fish passage; Laurentian Great Lakes Basin; Remediation

Indexed keywords

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EID: 84916222029     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12248     Document Type: Article

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