A Structured Approach for Developing Indices of Biotic Integrity: Three Examples from Streams and Rivers in the Western USA

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• Publication year

  2007

• Venue

  Transactions of The American Fisheries Society

• Publication date

  2007-05-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1577/T06-128.1
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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