Sampling characteristics and biases of enclosure traps for sampling fishes in estuaries

Estuaries and Coasts

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 630-638

  Steele, Mark A ^a,b   Schroeter, Stephen C ^a   Page, Henry M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BURROW; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; FISH; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; POPULATION DENSITY; SAMPLING BIAS; TRAP FISHING;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

PISCES;

EID: 33749637546     PISSN: 15592723     EISSN: 15592731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02784287     Document Type: Article

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