Assessing the efficacy of single-pass backpack electrofishing to characterize fish community structure

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 132, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 39-46

  Meador, Michael R ^a   McIntyre, Julie P ^b   Pollock, Kenneth H ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ELECTROFISHING; ICHTHYOFAUNA; SAMPLING; SPECIES RICHNESS;

UNITED STATES;

CYPRINIDAE;

EID: 0037237395     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/1548-8659(2003)132<0039:ATEOSP>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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