Do beaver dams reduce habitat connectivity and salmon productivity in expansive river floodplains?

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Volumn 2016, Issue 9, 2016, Pages

  Malison, Rachel L ^a,c   Kuzishchin, Kirill V ^a,b   Stanford, Jack A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Alaska; Alluvial river floodplains; Castor canadensis; Kamchatka; North American beaver; Pacific salmon; Salmon ecology; Salmon production

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ALASKA; BIOMASS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGY; FEMALE; FLOODPLAIN; HABITAT USE; HUMAN; JUVENILE; NONHUMAN; ONCORHYNCHUS KISUTCH; POND; PRODUCTIVITY; REARING; RIVER; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SPECIES;

EID: 84991705043     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21678359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.2403     Document Type: Article

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