Marine, brackish, and freshwater fish communities in the vegetated and bare shallows of an Australian coastal river

Estuaries

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 31-41

  West, Ronald J ^a   King, Robert J ^b  

^a NSW Fisheries Research Institute   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AQUATIC COMMUNITIES; FISH COMMUNITY; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SUBSTRATA;

AUSTRALIA, NEW SOUTH WALES, CLARENCE RIVER;

ACANTHOPAGRUS AUSTRALIS; CERRES SUBFASCIATUS; GIRELLA TRICUSPIDATA; LIZA AGENTEA; MUGIL CEPHALUS; RHABDOSARGUS SARBA; SILLAGO CILIATA;

EID: 0029667774     PISSN: 01608347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1352649     Document Type: Article

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