The dynamics of rivers in relation to fishes and fisheries

Freshwater Fisheries Ecology

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 9-30

  Petts, Geoff ^a   Gosselin, Marie Pierre ^b   Gray, Janina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b Stricklandgate   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Channel morphology; Flow regime; Human impacts; River fish; Rivers; Sediments

Indexed keywords

EID: 84961819944     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118394380.ch3     Document Type: Chapter

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