Assessing lake typologies and indicator fish species for Italian natural lakes using past fish richness and assemblages

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 671, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 227-240

  Volta, Pietro ^a   Oggioni, Alessandro ^a   Bettinetti, Roberta ^b   Jeppesen, Erik ^c,d,e  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^d GREENLAND INSTITUTE OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Greenland)

^e Sino Danish Centre for Education and Research (SDC)   (China)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Bioindicators; Biomonitoring; Fish fauna; Pollutants; Reference conditions

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; ALTITUDE; ASSESSMENT METHOD; BIOINDICATOR; BIOMONITORING; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECOREGION; FISH; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; LAKE; LINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLLUTION EFFECT; POPULATION DECLINE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIES RICHNESS; TYPOLOGY; WATER QUALITY;

ITALY;

ALOSA AGONE; COREGONUS LAVARETUS; CYPRINIDAE; ESOX LUCIUS; LOTA; LOTA LOTA; PHOXINUS PHOXINUS; SCARDINIUS ERYTHROPHTHALMUS; TINCA; TINCA TINCA;

EID: 79959280745     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-011-0720-6     Document Type: Article

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