Enhancing productive capacity in the canadian arctic: Assessing the effectiveness of instream habitat structures in habitat compensation

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 133, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1356-1365

  Jones, Nicholas E ^a,b   Tonn, William M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; GROWTH RATE; HABITAT STRUCTURE; POPULATION DENSITY; SALMONID;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHWEST TERRITORIES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

SALMONIDAE; THYMALLUS; THYMALLUS ARCTICUS;

EID: 8544284140     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T03-136.1     Document Type: Article

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