Assemblage level monitoring of stream fishes: The relative efficiency of single-pass vs. double-pass electrofishing

Fisheries Research

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 226-233

  Sály, Péter ^a   Eros, Tibor ^b   Takács, Péter ^b   Specziár, András ^b   Kiss, István ^a   Bíró, Péter ^b  

^a SZENT ISTVÁN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b BALATON LIMNOLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Autosimilarity; Fish assemblages; Lowland streams; Sample representativeness; Sampling effort

Indexed keywords

PISCES;

EID: 67650590720     PISSN: 01657836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fishres.2009.06.010     Document Type: Article

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