Hydroacoustic estimates of fish population depths and densities at increasingly longer time scales

International Review of Hydrobiology

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 91-102

  Busch, Susan ^a   Mehner, Thomas ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF FRESHWATER ECOLOGY AND INLAND FISHERIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coregonus; Diel vertical migration; Physical forces; Sampling reliability; Spatial distribution

Indexed keywords

COEFFICIENT OF VARIANCES; COREGONUS; DENSITY ESTIMATES; DEPTH DISTRIBUTIONS; DIEL CYCLES; DIEL VERTICAL MIGRATION; FISH DENSITIES; FISH POPULATIONS; HYDRO-ACOUSTIC SURVEYS; LIGHT INTENSITIES; PHYSICAL FORCES; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STRATIFIED LAKES; TEMPORAL DISTANCES; TEMPORAL SCALE; TIME-SCALES; VERTICAL POSITIONS; VOLUMETRIC DENSITIES;

FISHERIES; MEATS; RELIABILITY; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SURVEYS;

FISH;

ACOUSTICS; DEPTH DETERMINATION; DIEL MIGRATION; DIEL VARIATION; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; LIGHT INTENSITY; MIGRATORY SPECIES; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; SALMONID; SAMPLING; STRATIFICATION; THERMOCLINE; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

COREGONUS; SALMONIDAE;

EID: 63849131901     PISSN: 14342944     EISSN: 15222632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/iroh.200811092     Document Type: Article

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