Temporal trends in abundance of fish in the tidal Delaware River

Estuaries

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 723-729

  Weisberg, Stephen B ^a,d   Himchak, Peter ^b   Baum, Tom ^b   Wilson, Harold T ^c   Allen, Russell ^b  

^a VERSAR INC   (United States)

^b Nacote Creek Research Station   (United States)

^c Coastal Environmental Services ^*  (United States)

^d SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA COASTAL WATER RESEARCH PROJECT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALOSA SAPIDISSIMA; MORONE SAXATILIS; PISCES;

FISH COMMUNITY; ICHTHYOFAUNA; POPULATION NUMBER; POPULATION SIZE; TEMPORAL TREND; TEMPORAL TRENDS; WATER QUALITY;

USA, DELAWARE, DELAWARE ESTUARY;

EID: 0029664193     PISSN: 01608347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1352531     Document Type: Article

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