Fish and benthic macroinvertebrate assemblages as indicators of stream degradation in Urbanizing Watersheds

Biological Response Signatures: Indicator Patterns Using Aquatic Communities

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 227-249

  Wang, Lizhu ^a   Lyons, John ^a  

^a WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (United States)

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EID: 85055931859     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1201/9781420041453     Document Type: Chapter

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