Development of an Index of Biotic Integr
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Katharina Eichbaum Esteves; Cleber Valim Alexandre
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Article
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2011
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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A fish-based Index of Biotic Integrity (IBI) was adapted for use in a stream of the heavily impacted Piracicaba River basin in southeastern Brazil. The influences of land use (mainly sugar-cane crops) and an urban area on the fish community were investigated at ten sites along a 17 km-long stream du