The response of the young of the year fish to river obstacles: Functional and numerical linkages between dams, weirs, fish habitat guilds and biotic integrity across large spatial scale

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 23, Issue , 2012, Pages 634-640

  Musil, Jiří ^a   Horký, Pavel ^a   Slavík, Ondřej ^a   Zbořil, Aleš ^a   Horká, Petra ^a  

^a T G MASARYK WATER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Fish; GIS; Guild dominance; IBI concept; River fragmentation; River restoration

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INTEGRITY; BIOTIC INTEGRITY; DESCRIPTORS; ECOLOGICAL STUDIES; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONS; FISH COMMUNITIES; FISH HABITAT; FUNDAMENTAL COMPONENT; GUILD DOMINANCE; HABITAT QUALITY; IBI CONCEPT; NUMERICAL RESPONSE; RELATIVE DISTANCES; RIVER BASINS; RIVER RESTORATION; RIVERINE ECOSYSTEMS; SPATIAL SCALE; STUDY SITES;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEMS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES; HYDROGEOLOGY; RESTORATION; RIVERS; SOCIAL SCIENCES; WATERSHEDS; WEIRS;

FISH;

COMMUNITY RESPONSE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONNECTIVITY; DAM; DOMINANCE; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; FISH; GIS; GUILD STRUCTURE; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT QUALITY; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; RIVER BASIN; RIVER ENGINEERING; WATERSHED; WEIR; YOUNG POPULATION;

IBIS;

EID: 84862198192     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2012.05.018     Document Type: Article

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