A comparison between the benthic Nordic gillnet and whole water column gillnet for characterizing fish assemblages in the shallow Lake Balaton

Annales de Limnologie

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 171-180

  Specziár, András ^a   Eros, Tibor ^a   György, Ágnes I ^a,b   Tátrai, István ^a   Bíró, Péter ^a  

^a BALATON LIMNOLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PANNONIA   (Hungary)

Author keywords

EN 14757:2005; Nordic gillnet; Pelagic fish species; Representative sampling; Shallow lake

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GILLNET; HABITAT STRUCTURE; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SAMPLING; SHALLOW WATER; SPECIES RICHNESS; WATER COLUMN;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; HUNGARY; LAKE BALATON;

EID: 70349583020     PISSN: 00034088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/limn/2009016     Document Type: Article

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