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An Empirical Methodology for Estimating Entrainment Losses at Power Plants Sited on Estuaries
Author(s) -
Boreman John,
Goodyear C. Phillip,
Christensen Sigurd W.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
transactions of the american fisheries society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.696
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 1548-8659
pISSN - 0002-8487
DOI - 10.1577/1548-8659(1981)110<253:aemfee>2.0.co;2
Subject(s) - estuary , entrainment (biomusicology) , environmental science , abundance (ecology) , ecology , statistics , mathematics , biology , philosophy , rhythm , aesthetics
A model based on empirically derived age‐, time‐, and space‐variant entrainment susceptibility data may be used for estimating conditional entrainment mortality of aquatic organisms, particularly fish and shellfish, caused by operation of one or more power plants on an estuary. Model application requires knowledge of the morphometry of the water body, the power‐plant flow rates, the probability of entrainment survival, and the duration, distribution, and abundance of entrainable age‐groups. A novel feature of the model is that organism distribution and movement within the model are defined by information derived from field samples rather than by hydrodynamic principles and equations.