A predictive index of biotic integrity model for aquatic-vertebrate assemblages of western U.S. streams

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 138, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 292-305

  Pont, Didier ^a   Hughes, Robert M ^b   Whittier, Thomas R ^b   Schmutz, Stefan ^c  

^a UR EMAX   (France)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ASSESSMENT METHOD; BENTHOS; CALIBRATION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECOREGION; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ERROR ANALYSIS; INDEX METHOD; NATIVE SPECIES; NUMERICAL MODEL; SPECIES RICHNESS; STREAM; SURVEY; TOLERANCE; VERTEBRATE;

UNITED STATES;

AMPHIBIA; IBIS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 70349298765     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T07-277.1     Document Type: Article

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