A new index of habitat alteration and a comparison of approaches to predict stream habitat conditions

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2009-2020

  Frappier, Brian ^a   Eckert, Robert T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioassessment; Environmental assessment; Habitat assessment; Predictive modeling; Streams

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548477645     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2007.01803.x     Document Type: Article

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