An Index of Biotic Integrity for fish assemblages in Ozark Highland streams of Arkansas

Southeastern Naturalist

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 447-468

  Dauwalter, Daniel C ^a,d   Pert, Edmund J ^a,b   Keith, William E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT PINE BLUFF   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND GAME   (United States)

^c Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality   (United States)

^d OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMEIURUS NATALIS; COTTUS; ETHEOSTOMA; ICTALURUS PUNCTATUS; LEPOMIS CYANELLUS; LEPOMIS MACROCHIRUS; NOTURUS; PERCINA;

EID: 24344449024     PISSN: 15287092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1656/1528-7092(2003)002[0447:AIOBIF]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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