Selecting fish-based metrics responding to human pressures in French natural lakes and reservoirs: towards the development of a fish-based index (FBI) for French lakes
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Selecting fish-based metrics responding to human pressures in French natural lakes and reservoirs: towards the development of a fish-based index (FBI) for French lakes. Running headline: Response of fish-based metrics to human pressures in French lakes
Word count: 149 words) 1. Fish-based indices of biotic integrity (IBI) have been developed for many lotic systems but remain scarce for lakes. The goal of the present study was to assess the responses of lentic fish assemblages to anthropogenic pressures when environmental variability was controlled for, and to compare them between French natural lakes and reservoirs. 2. Environmental features,...
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عنوان ژورنال: Ecology of Freshwater Fish
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0906-6691
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0633.2010.00467.x