Efficacy of population size structure as a bioassessment tool in freshwaters

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 34, Issue , 2013, Pages 571-579

  Murphy, Christina A ^a   Casals, Frederic ^b   Solà, Carolina ^c   Caiola, Nuno ^d   De Sostoa, Adolf ^e   García Berthou, Emili ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LLEIDA   (Spain)

^c Catalan Water Agency   (Spain)

^d IRTA Aquatic Ecosystems   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic perturbation; Covariance; Human disturbance; Mediterranean; Squalius laietanus; Variation partitioning

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC PERTURBATION; COVARIANCE; HUMAN DISTURBANCES; MEDITERRANEAN; SQUALIUS LAIETANUS; VARIATION PARTITIONING;

FISH; HIGHER ORDER STATISTICS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; WATER; WATERSHEDS;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ASSESSMENT METHOD; BIODEGRADATION; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; CYPRINID; DISTURBANCE; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; LANDSCAPE; NATIVE SPECIES; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; POPULATION SIZE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RIVER BASIN; SIZE STRUCTURE; SPECIES RICHNESS;

CATALONIA; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; SPAIN;

EID: 84880896807     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2013.06.007     Document Type: Article

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