Predicting community characteristics from habitat conditions: Fluvial fish and hydraulics

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 275-299

  Lamouroux, Nicolas ^a,b,d   Olivier, Jean Michel ^a   Persat, Henri ^a   Pouilly, Marc ^c   Souchon, Yves ^d   Statzner, Bernhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b Compagnie Nationale du Rhône ^*  (France)

^c Institut de recherche pour le developpement Bolivia   (Bolivia)

^d CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

Community structure; Fish traits; Habitat model; Habitat preference; Streams

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; HYDRAULIC PROPERTY; ICHTHYOFAUNA; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE;

FRANCE;

EID: 0032834437     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2427.1999.444498.x     Document Type: Article

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