Fish use of stage-specific fluvial habitats as refuge patches during a flood in a low-gradient Illinois stream

Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Volumn 62, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1540-1552

  Schwartz, John S ^a   Herricks, Edwin E ^b  

^a University of Tennessee Knoxville   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; FISH; FLOOD; HABITAT USE; RESTORATION ECOLOGY;

ILLINOIS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 26944473231     PISSN: 0706652X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/f05-060     Document Type: Article

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