Experimental evaluation of biases associated with sampling estuarine fishes with seines

Estuaries and Coasts

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1172-1184

  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

ESTIMATION METHOD; ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM; FISHING GEAR; POPULATION DENSITY; SAMPLING; SPECIES RICHNESS;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

PISCES;

EID: 34250871880     PISSN: 15592723     EISSN: 15592731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf02781818     Document Type: Article

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