Ecological restoration and large-scale ecological disturbance: The effects of drought on the response by fish to a habitat restoration experiment

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 39-48

  Bond, Nick R ^a   Lake, P S ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bayesian analysis; Habitat structure; Sand slugs; Sedimentation

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; HABITAT STRUCTURE; ICHTHYOFAUNA; LOTIC ENVIRONMENT; REFUGE; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SEDIMENTATION;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

GADOPSIS MARMORATUS; GALAXIAS; GALAXIAS OLIDUS; GASTROPODA; NANNOPERCA AUSTRALIS; UNELA REMANEI;

EID: 16344364579     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2005.00006.x     Document Type: Article

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