River rehabilitation and fish populations: Assessing the benefit of instream structures

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 251-265

  Pretty, James L ^a   Harrison, S S C ^a,c   Shepherd, D J ^b   Smith, C ^a   Hildrew, A G ^a   Hey, R D ^b  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Artificial riffles; Flow deflectors; Habitat heterogeneity; Rehabilitation potential

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; FLOW VELOCITY; HABITAT CREATION; ICHTHYOFAUNA; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; RIVER;

UNITED KINGDOM;

BARBATULA BARBATULA; COTTUS GOBIO; GOBIO; HYMENOPHYSA CURTA; ICHTHYOFAUNA; PISCES;

EID: 0038308755     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2664.2003.00808.x     Document Type: Article

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