Estimating sampling effort required for characterizing species richness and site-to-site similarity in fish assemblage surveys of Wadeable Illinois streams

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 139, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1421-1435

  Holtrop, Ann M ^a   Cao, Yong ^b   Dolan, Chad R ^c  

^a ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

^c Southeast Regional Office   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FISH; FISHERY SURVEY; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; RIFFLE; SAMPLING; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; STREAMWATER; SUBSTRATE; WATERSHED;

ILLINOIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79954490888     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T09-078.1     Document Type: Article

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