Fish assemblage structure in relation to environmental variation among brazos river oxbow lakes

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 129, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 451-468

  Winemiller, Kirk O ^a   Tarim, Soner ^a   Shormann, David ^a   Cotner, James B ^a,b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ICHTHYOFAUNA; OXBOW LAKE;

BRAZOS RIVER; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0034122859     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/1548-8659(2000)129<0451:FASIRT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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