Fish, flows and flood plains: Links between freshwater fishes and their environment in the Murray-Darling River system, Australia

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 56, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 129-151

  Humphries, Paul ^a   King, Alison J ^a   Koehn, John D ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Freshwater Ecology Division   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fish larvae; Floods; Life cycles; Low flow recruitment hypothesis; Lowland rivers; Recruitment; Spawning

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FLOODPLAIN; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; HABITAT USE;

ANIMALIA; PISCES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032881416     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1007536009916     Document Type: Article

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