Effects of forest harvesting and fire on fish assemblagesin boreal plains lakes: A reference condition approach

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 132, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 514-523

  Tonn, William M ^a   Paszkowski, Cynthia A ^a   Scrimgeour, Garry J ^a,b   Aku, Peter K M ^a,c   Lange, Marc ^a,d   Prepas, Ellie E ^a,e   Westcott, Kim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b Alberta Conservation Association   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT MONROE   (United States)

^d FISHERIES AND OCEANS CANADA   (Canada)

^e LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; FOREST FIRE; ICHTHYOFAUNA; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; TIMBER HARVESTING;

CANADA;

CATOSTOMUS; CATOSTOMUS COMMERSONI; PISCES;

EID: 0037904304     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/1548-8659(2003)132<0514:EOFHAF>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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