Ecological Processes

Table 2 Relative abundances of fish families collected from agriculture and forest streams of the Mississippi Alluvial Plain

From: Water quality, habitat, and fish assemblage relationships in middle-order agriculture and forest streams of the Mississippi Alluvial Plain

Family	Common name	Relative abundance
		Agriculture (%)	Forest (%)
Cyprinidae	Minnows	34.4	80.9
Centrarchidae	Sunfishes, crappies	33.2	7.5
Aphredoderidae	Pirate perch	12.3	0.9
Poeciliidae	Live-bearers	6.7	0.7
Ictaluridae	North American catfishes	6.3	0.2
Atherinopsidae	Silversides	0.2	3.7
Fundulidae	Topminnows	0.4	3.4
Percidae	Darters, perches	2.2	1.5
Lepisosteidae	Gars	2.6	0.4
Clupeidae	Shads	0.6	0.8
Catostomidae	Suckers	0.4	< 0.1
Sciaenidae	Freshwater drum	0.3	< 0.1
Elassomatidae	Banded pigmy sunfishes	0.3	< 0.1

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