Integrating stream bioassessment and landscape ecology as a tool for landuse planning

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 908-917

  Bailey, Robert C ^a   Reynoldson, Trefor B ^b   Yates, Adam G ^a   Bailey, John ^a   Linke, Simon ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b ACADIA UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bioassessment; Fraser River Basin; Landscape ecology; Landuse planning; Reference Condition Approach

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247537143     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2006.01685.x     Document Type: Article

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