Using a process-based catchment-scale model for enhancing field-based stream assessments and predicting stream fish assemblages

Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 511-525

  Kautza, Adam ^a   Sullivan, S Mažeika P ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Catchment; Fish; Landscape; Modelling; Stream; Urban development

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL CATCHMENT; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FIELD SURVEY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; INDEX OF BIOTIC INTEGRITY; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NITROGEN; PERCID; PHOSPHORUS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENT YIELD; SPECIES RICHNESS; STREAM; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; WATER QUALITY;

OHIO; UNITED STATES;

ETHEOSTOMA; PISCES;

EID: 84864531900     PISSN: 10527613     EISSN: 10990755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aqc.2252     Document Type: Article

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