Ecosystem experiment reveals benefits of natural and simulated beaver dams to a threatened population of steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss)

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Bouwes, Nicolaas ^a,b   Weber, Nicholas ^a   Jordan, Chris E ^c   Saunders, W Carl ^a,b   Tattam, Ian A ^d   Volk, Carol ^e   Wheaton, Joseph M ^b   Pollock, Michael M ^c  

^a Eco Logical Research   (United States)

^b UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NORTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^d EASTERN OREGON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e South Fork Research Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS; PHYSIOLOGY; RIVER; RODENT;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS; RIVERS; RODENTIA;

EID: 84977274409     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep28581     Document Type: Article

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