Ecological Integrity Assessment of Lakes Using Fish Communities - Suggestions of New Metrics Developed in Two Austrian Prealpine Lakes

International Review of Hydrobiology

Volumn 88, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 635-652

  Gassner, Hubert ^a   Tischler, Gerhard ^b   Wanzenböck, Josef ^b  

^a Inst Freshw Ecol Fish Mgmt L   (Austria)

^b ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

Author keywords

Ecological status; Prealpine lakes; Reference status; Species composition; Total fish biomass; Water framework directive

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ICHTHYOFAUNA; LAKE ECOSYSTEM;

AUSTRIA; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE;

ICHTHYOFAUNA;

EID: 0344736700     PISSN: 14342944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/iroh.200310629     Document Type: Article

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