Natural and Anthropogenic Influences on the Distribution of the Threatened Neosho Madtom in a Midwestern Warmwater Stream

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 129, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 243-261

  Wildhaber, Mark L ^a   Allert, Ann L ^a   Schmitt, Christopher J ^a   Tabor, Vernon M ^b   Mulhern, Daniel ^b   Powell, Kenneth L ^c   Sowa, Scott P ^d  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b U S FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE   (United States)

^c Westwood Professional Services   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONSERVATION STATUS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ICHTHYOFAUNA; POPULATION DENSITY;

SPRING RIVER; UNITED STATES;

ICHTHYOFAUNA; INVERTEBRATA; NEOSHO; NOTURUS; NOTURUS PLACIDUS; PISCES;

EID: 0033969211     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/1548-8659(2000)129<0243:NAAIOT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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