Development of a fish-based index for the assessment of the ecological status of Lake Balaton in the absence of present day reference condition

A fish-based index is proposed to indicate the ecological status of Lake Balaton, Hungary in accordance with the standard of the European Water Framework Directive (WFD). The Balaton fish index (BFI) synthetises information of 13 lake-specific fish metrics including gillnetting and electric fishing...

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Main Authors: Specziár András, Erős Tibor
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: EDP Sciences 2020-01-01
Series:Knowledge and Management of Aquatic Ecosystems
Subjects:
eqr
Online Access:https://www.kmae-journal.org/articles/kmae/full_html/2020/01/kmae190126/kmae190126.html