Habitat condition and fish assemblage structure in a coastal mediterranean stream (Yarqon, Israel) receiving domestic effluent

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 422-423, Issue , 2000, Pages 319-330

  Gafny, Sarig ^a   Goren, Menachem ^a   Gasith, Avital ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

BOD; Multi Dimensional Scaling; Stream pollution; Urban stream

Indexed keywords

BIOINDICATOR; BIOMASS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECOTOXICITY; EFFLUENT; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FISH; HABITAT; ISRAEL; STREAM; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER QUALITY;

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DOMESTIC WASTE; HABITAT QUALITY; ICHTHYOFAUNA; POLLUTION EFFECT; WATER QUALITY;

ISRAEL; YARQON;

ICHTHYOFAUNA;

EID: 0034174307     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-011-4164-2_26     Document Type: Conference Paper

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