An index of biotic integrity: A test with limnological and fish data from sixty florida lakes

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 128, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 564-577

  Schulz, Eric J ^a   Hoyer, Mark V ^a   Canfield, Daniel R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOTIC INTEGRITY INDEX; UNITED STATES;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; FISH; INDEX OF BIOTIC INTEGRITY; LIMNOLOGY;

FLORIDA; UNITED STATES;

LEPOMIS;

EID: 0032726391     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/1548-8659(1999)128<0564:AIOBIA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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