Influence of beavers on stream fish assemblages: Effects of pond age and watershed position

Ecology

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 928-942

  Snodgrass, Joel W ^a   Meffe, Gary K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anoxic conditions; Beaver ponds; Castor canadensis; Fish assemblages; Fish predation; Landscape position; Patch dynamics; Pond age; Species richness

Indexed keywords

AGE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ICHTHYOFAUNA; IMPOUNDMENT; POND; WATERSHED;

ANIMALIA; CASTOR CANADENSIS; CASTOR FIBER; CASTORIDAE; CYPRINIFORMES; ICHTHYOFAUNA;

EID: 0031848793     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(1998)079[0928:IOBOSF]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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