Using habitat guilds to develop habitat suitability criteria for a warmwater stream fish assemblage

River Research and Applications

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 956-966

  Persinger, J W ^a,b   Orth, D J ^a   Averett, A W ^a,c  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MISSOURI DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION   (United States)

^c Virginia Department of Environmental Quality   (United States)

Author keywords

Fish assemblages; Habitat guilds; Habitat suitability criteria; Instream flow; Physical habitat analyses; Warmwater streams

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DEPTH; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FISH; FROUDE NUMBER; HABITAT SELECTION; HABITAT TYPE; INSTREAM FLOW; SPECIES DIVERSITY; VELOCITY;

EID: 80052921608     PISSN: 15351459     EISSN: 15351467     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rra.1400     Document Type: Article

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