Effects of watershed urban land use on environmental conditions and fish assemblages in chattanooga area streams (tennessee-Georgia)

Journal of Freshwater Ecology

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 527-537

  Long, Jeannie ^a   Schorr, Mark S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE AT CHATTANOOGA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ICHTHYOFAUNA; INDEX OF BIOTIC INTEGRITY; LAND USE; RIPARIAN ZONE; URBANIZATION; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED;

CHATTANOOGA; NORTH AMERICA; TENNESSEE; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

HEMITREMIA; HEMITREMIA FLAMMEA; PHOXINUS ERYTHROGASTER;

EID: 25144461985     PISSN: 02705060     EISSN: 21566941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02705060.2005.9664768     Document Type: Article

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