Assessing perturbation of river fish communities in the Iberian Ecoregion

Fisheries Management and Ecology

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 519-530

  Ferreira, Teresa ^a   Caiola, N ^b   Casals, F ^c   Oliveira, J M ^a   de Sostoa, A ^b  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE AGRONOMIA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LLEIDA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Fish metrics; Fish types; Guilds; Human impacts; Iberia; Stream degradation

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; DISTURBANCE; FISH; TYPOLOGY; WATER QUALITY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; IBERIAN PENINSULA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

BARBUS; CHONDROSTOMA; CYPRINIDAE; LEUCISCUS; LEUCISCUS CEPHALUS; SALMO TRUTTA; SALMO TRUTTA FARIO; SALMONIDAE; SQUALIUS;

EID: 36549040510     PISSN: 0969997X     EISSN: 13652400     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2400.2007.00581.x     Document Type: Article

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