Fish ecomorphology: predicting habitat preferences of stream fishes from their body shape
This research tested the ability of fish morphology to predict membership of fishes in habitat guilds, their swimming performance, and habitat preference. Further, it considered methods for choosing a surrogate species to identify habitat of target species. Morphological discriminant functions wer...
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Virginia Tech
2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/27867 http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05242001-183326/ |