Allocation of sampling effort to optimize efficiency of watershed-level ichthyofaunal inventories

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 137, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1500-1506

  Smith, Katherine L ^a,b   Jones, Michael L ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPTURE METHOD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ICHTHYOFAUNA; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES INVENTORY; STREAM; WATERSHED;

GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 57349102292     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T07-024.1     Document Type: Article

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