Evidence of a lunar gravitation cue on timing of estuarine entry by pacific salmon smolts

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 133, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1379-1395

  Devries, Paul ^a   Goetz, Fred ^b   Fresh, Kurt ^c   Seiler, David ^d  

^a R2 Resource Consultants Inc   (United States)

^b US Army Corps of Engineers   (United States)

^c NORTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL CUE; LUNAR CYCLE; MIGRATORY BEHAVIOR; SALMONID; TAGGING;

ONCORHYNCHUS; ONCORHYNCHUS KISUTCH; ONCORHYNCHUS NERKA; ONCORHYNCHUS TSHAWYTSCHA; SALMONIDAE;

EID: 8544234311     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T03-173.1     Document Type: Article

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