Assessing the likely responses by fishes to stream bank rehabilitation in a large, urban estuary

Austral Ecology

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 479-489

  Hale, Robin ^a   Barbee, Nicole C ^a   Swearer, Stephen E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Effect size; Estuarine; Fish; Monitoring; Rehabilitation; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ASSESSMENT METHOD; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; FISH; HABITAT RESTORATION; HABITAT TYPE; STREAM; URBAN AREA; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBANIZATION;

JUNCUS; PISCES;

EID: 84900853574     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: 14429993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/aec.12106     Document Type: Article

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