An ordination technique for fish diet comparisons

Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 101-110

  Penczak, Tadeusz ^a   Agostinho, Angelo A ^b   Hahn, Norma S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LODZ   (Poland)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF MARINGÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Feeding; Fish; Floodplain; Parana river; Similarity definition; Synthetic table

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001197387     PISSN: 15168913     EISSN: 15168913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s1516-89132000000100013     Document Type: Article

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