Riparian influences on stream fish assemblage structure in urbanizing streams

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 385-402

  Roy, Allison H ^a,b   Freeman, Byron J ^a   Freeman, Mary C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Catchment; Fish; Land use cover; Land water interface; Piedmont; Riparian buffer; Stream; Urban

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FISH; FORESTED CATCHMENT; ICHTHYOFAUNA; LAND COVER; LAND USE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RIPARIAN FOREST; SPECIES RICHNESS; STREAM; URBANIZATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; PIEDMONT [ITALY]; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

CYPRINIDAE; PISCES;

EID: 33847289260     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-006-9034-x     Document Type: Article

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