Habitat and fish responses to multiple agricultural best management practices in a warm water stream

Journal of the American Water Resources Association

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1047-1062

  Wang, Lizhu ^a   Lyons, John ^b   Kanehl, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Agricultural land use; Best management practices; Fish, habitat; Nonpoint source pollution; Riparian buffer; Warm water stream; Watershed management

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEMS; VEGETATION;

AGRICULTURAL LAND USE; BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES; NONPOINT SOURCE POLLUTION; RIPARIAN BUFFER; WATERSHED MANAGEMENT;

AGRICULTURE;

AGRICULTURE; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEMS; VEGETATION;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FISH; HABITAT; NONPOINT SOURCE POLLUTION; WARM WATER; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATERSHED;

AGRICULTURE; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEMS; PLANTS;

NORTH AMERICA; OTTER CREEK; SHEBOYGAN RIVER; UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN;

ANHINGIDAE; CARNIVORA; PERCIDAE;

EID: 33845334853     PISSN: 1093474X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-1688.2006.tb04513.x     Document Type: Article

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