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Development of an Index of Biotic Integr

Development of an Index of Biotic Integrity Based on Fish Communities to Assess the Effects of Rural and Urban Land Use on a Stream in Southeastern Brazil

✍ Katharina Eichbaum Esteves; Cleber Valim Alexandre 📂 Article 📅 2011 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 338 KB 👁 2 views

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