A comparison of three methods for estimating substrate coarseness in rivers

Fisheries Management and Ecology

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 323-329

  Gibson, R J ^a,b   Hillier, K G ^a   Whalen, R R ^a  

^a FISHERIES AND OCEANS CANADA   (Canada)

^b NONE   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; RIVER; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SUBSTRATE;

CANADA; NEWFOUNDLAND;

EID: 0031767958     PISSN: 0969997X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2400.1998.540323.x     Document Type: Article

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