Comment: Test of an Index of Biotic Integrity

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 130, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 169-172

  Whittier, Thomas R ^a   Hughes, Robert M ^a   Peck, David V ^a  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

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EID: 0035022339     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/1548-8659(2001)130<0169:>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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