A review of length-weight relationships of fishes from freshwaters of Turkey

Journal of Applied Ichthyology

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 264-270

  Torcu Koç, Hatice ^a   Erdogan, Z ^a   Treer, T ^b  

^a BALIKESIR UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FISH; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; LENGTH-WEIGHT RELATIONSHIP; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SPECIES INVENTORY;

EURASIA; TURKEY;

CARASSIUS CARASSIUS; PISCES;

EID: 33745962676     PISSN: 01758659     EISSN: 14390426     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0426.2006.00709.x     Document Type: Review

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