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Waterfall Formation at a Desert River-Reservoir Delta Isolates Endangered Fishes
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Waterfall Formation at a Desert River-Reservoir Delta Isolates Endangered Fishes |
| Creator | Cathcart, Charles N. Pennock, Casey A. Cheek, Christopher A. McKinstry, Mark C. MacKinnon, Peter D. Conner, Mary M. Gido, Keith B. |
| Description | Unforeseen interactions of dams and declining water availability have formed new obstacles to recovering endemic and endangered big-river fishes. During a recent trend of drying climate and declining reservoir water levels in the southwestern United States, a large waterfall has formed on two separate occasions (1989-1995 & 2001-present) in the transition zone between the San Juan River and Lake Powell reservoir because of deposited sediments. Because recovery plans for two large-bodied... |
| Date | 2018-09-07T07:00:00Z |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Identifier | https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/wild_facpub/2696 info:doi/10.1002/rra.3341 https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/context/wild_facpub/article/3696/viewcontent/auto_convert.pdf |
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| Source | Wildland Resources Faculty Publications |
| Publisher | Hosted by Utah State University Libraries |
| Contributor | Wiley |
| Subject | fragmentation waterfall endangered species Colorado River Basin river-reservoir inflow razorback sucker climate change Natural Resources and Conservation |
