Seasonal variation of fish abundance and biomass in gillnet catches of an East Mediterranean lake: Lake Doirani

Journal of Environmental Biology

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 995-1000

  Bobori, Dimitra C ^a   Salvarina, Ioanna ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Abundance; Biomass; Freshwater fish; Gillnet catches; Lake doirani

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOMASS; CATCHABILITY; CYPRINID; GILLNET; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES EVENNESS; SPECIES RICHNESS;

DOIRANI LAKE;

CYPRINIDAE; PERCA FLUVIATILIS; PERCIDAE; RHODEUS;

EID: 79851489428     PISSN: 02548704     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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