The importance of inshore areas for adult fish distribution along a free-flowing section of the Danube, Austria

River Research and Applications

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 137-149

  Hirzinger, V ^a   Keckeis, H ^a   Nemeschkal, H L ^b   Schiemer, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Danube; Large rivers; Littoral zone; Logistic regression; PCA; Riverine fish; Shore line structure

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FISH; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; RIVER CHANNEL;

AUSTRIA; CENTRAL EUROPE; DANUBE RIVER; EURASIA; EUROPE;

ABRAMIS; ABRAMIS BALLERUS; ABRAMIS BRAMA; BRAMA; CHONDROSTOMA; CHONDROSTOMA NASUS; LEUCISCUS; LEUCISCUS CEPHALUS; LEUCISCUS IDUS;

EID: 16544387788     PISSN: 15351459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rra.739     Document Type: Article

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