Quantifying the effects of temperature and flow regime on the abundance of 0+ cyprinids in the upper River Rhone using Bayesian hierarchical modelling

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2359-2374

  Piffady, Jeremy ^a   Souchon, Yves ^a   Capra, Herve ^a   Parent, Eric ^b  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b AgroParisTech   (France)

Author keywords

0+ fish; Bayesian hierarchical modelling; Cyprinid fish; Environmental variations; Upper River Rhone

Indexed keywords

CYPRINIDAE;

EID: 78649474949     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2010.02453.x     Document Type: Article

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