Fishes of floodplain habitats of the Fly River system, Papua New Guinea, and changes associated with El Nino droughts and algal blooms

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 389-404

  Swales, Stephen ^a   Storey, Andrew W ^b   Roderick, Ian D ^a   Figa, Boga S ^a  

^a Ok Tedi Mining Limited   (Papua New Guinea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biomonitoring; Fish catches; Oxbow lakes; Species richness; Strickland River

Indexed keywords

ALGAL BLOOM; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DROUGHT; FLOODPLAIN; ICHTHYOFAUNA;

PAPUA NEW GUINEA;

EID: 0033052365     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007474501507     Document Type: Article

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