Go with the flow: the movement behaviour of fish from isolated waterhole refugia during connecting flow events in an intermittent dryland river

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 61, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 1242-1258

  Marshall, Jonathan C ^a,b   Menke, Norbert ^a   Crook, David A ^c   Lobegeiger, Jaye S ^a   Balcombe, Stephen R ^b   Huey, Joel A ^d   Fawcett, James H ^e   Bond, Nick R ^b   Starkey, Alisa H ^e   Sternberg, David ^b,e   Linke, Simon ^b   Arthington, Angela H ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT   (Australia)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d WESTERN AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

^e Department of Natural Resources and Mines ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

fish passage; flow cues; movement distance and direction; partial migration; philopatry

Indexed keywords

EID: 84977509604     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/fwb.12707     Document Type: Article

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