Applicability of the abundance/biomass comparison method for detecting human impacts on fish populations in the Pilica River, Poland

Fisheries Research

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 229-240

  Penczak, Tadeusz ^a   Kruk, Andrzej ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LODZ   (Poland)

Author keywords

ABC method; Engineering; Fish populations; Impounded river; Overfishing; Pollution; Simpson and Shannon indices

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOMASS; DAM; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ICHTHYOFAUNA; POINT SOURCE POLLUTION;

POLAND;

EID: 0032965561     PISSN: 01657836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-7836(98)00201-X     Document Type: Article

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