Structure of fish assemblages along environmental gradients in floodplain lakes of the Orinoco River

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 109-128

  Rodríguez, Marco A ^a,b   Lewis Jr , William M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À RIMOUSKI   (Canada)

Author keywords

Abiotic factors; Community organization; Multivariate analyses; Orinoco River floodplain; Piscivory; Predator prey interactions; Predictability; Seasonality; Tropical ecology; Turbidity; Venezuela; Vision; Water

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FISH COMMUNITY; FLOODPLAIN LAKE; SEASONALITY;

VENEZUELA, ORINOCO RIVER FLOODPLAIN;

EID: 0031284516     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9615(1997)067[0109:SOFAAE]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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