Developing fish community based ecohydrological indicators for water resources management in Taiwan

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 625, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 223-234

  Suen, Jian Ping ^a   Herricks, Edwin E ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental flow; Fish autecology matrix; Fish communities; Habitat; Natural flow management

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS; FISH; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; WATER RESOURCES;

ECOLOGICAL REQUIREMENTS; ENVIRONMENTAL FLOW; FISH COMMUNITIES; HABITAT; IDENTIFICATION PROCESS; NATURAL FLOW; STOCHASTIC HYDROLOGIES; WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT;

AQUATIC ORGANISMS;

AQUATIC COMMUNITY; ECOHYDROLOGY; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; STOCHASTICITY; WATER RESOURCE;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TAIWAN;

EID: 62149149949     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-009-9710-3     Document Type: Article

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