Accounting for groundwater in stream fish thermal habitat responses to climate change

Ecological Applications

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1397-1419

  Snyder, Craig D ^a   Hitt, Nathaniel P ^a   Young, John A ^a  

^a LEETOWN SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Brook trout; Climate change; Groundwater; Headwater streams; Salvelinus fontinalis; Shenandoah National Park, USA; Thermal habitat

Indexed keywords

AIR-WATER INTERACTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; COST ANALYSIS; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT LOSS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SALMONID; STREAMWATER; WATER TEMPERATURE; WATERSHED;

SHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARK; UNITED STATES; VIRGINIA;

SALMONIDAE; SALVELINUS FONTINALIS;

GROUND WATER;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLIMATE CHANGE; PHYSIOLOGY; RIVER; SALMONINE; TEMPERATURE; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; CLIMATE CHANGE; GROUNDWATER; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RIVERS; TEMPERATURE; TROUT; VIRGINIA;

EID: 84930213215     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: 19395582     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.th6g8     Document Type: Article

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