Episodic acidification and changes in fish diversity in pennsylvania headwater streams

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 126, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 977-984

  Heard, Robin M ^a   Sharpe, William E ^a   Carline, Robert F ^a   Kimmel, William G ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACIDIFICATION; DARTER; FISH COMMUNITY; MINNOW; SPECIES DIVERSITY; WATER CHEMSITRY;

PENNSYLVANIA; USA;

CYPRINIDAE; PERCIDAE;

EID: 0031416229     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/1548-8659(1997)126<0977:EAACIF>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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