Fish assemblages as influenced by environmental factors in streams in protected areas of the Czech Republic

Ecology of Freshwater Fish

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 96-103

  Humpl, M ^a   Pivnicka K ^a  

^a Charles University   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Canonical correspondence analysis; Detrended correspondence analysis; Factors measured in situ and on maps; Mid sized streams; Presence absence and relative abundance data

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; FISH; PROTECTED AREA; STREAM;

CENTRAL EUROPE; CZECH REPUBLIC; EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 33745963812     PISSN: 09066691     EISSN: 16000633     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0633.2006.00126.x     Document Type: Article

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