Short term effects of Tucuruí Dam (Amazonia, Brazil) on the trophic organization of fish communities

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 375-392

  De Mérona, Bernard ^a   Mendes Dos Santos, Geraldo ^b   Goncçalves De Almeida, Raimunda ^c  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO NORTE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Diet plasticity; Large river; Resource availability; Trophic structure; Tropic

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DAM; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ICHTHYOFAUNA; TROPHIC STRUCTURE;

BRAZIL;

EID: 0035049822     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1011033025706     Document Type: Article

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