Chinook salmon outmigration survival in wet and dry years in California’s Sacramento river

Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Volumn 72, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 1749-1759

  Michel, Cyril J ^a   Ammann, Arnold J ^b   Lindley, Steven T ^b   Sandstrom, Philip T ^c,d   Chapman, Eric D ^c   Thomas, Michael J ^c   Singer, Gabriel P ^c   Klimley, A Peter ^c   MacFarlane, R Bruce ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SOUTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d WASHINGTON DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND WILDLIFE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CHANNELIZATION; COASTAL ZONE; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MIGRATION; RIVER FLOW; SALMONID; SMOLT; SURVIVAL; WATER FLOW;

CALIFORNIA; SACRAMENTO RIVER; UNITED STATES;

ONCORHYNCHUS TSHAWYTSCHA;

EID: 84945962865     PISSN: 0706652X     EISSN: 12057533     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/cjfas-2014-0528     Document Type: Article

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