Survey boat effect on YOY fish schools in a pre-alpine lake: Evidence from multibeam sonar and split-beam echosounder data

Ecology of Freshwater Fish

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 373-380

  Guillard, J ^a   Balay, P ^a   Colon, M ^a   Brehmer, P ^b  

^a UMR CARRTEL   (France)

^b Universite de Bretagne Occidentale   (France)

Author keywords

Avoidance; Behaviour; Echosounder; Fish school; Lake; Multibeam sonar

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955748748     PISSN: 09066691     EISSN: 16000633     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0633.2010.00419.x     Document Type: Article

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