Homogenization of freshwater faunas

Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics

Volumn 33, Issue , 2002, Pages 291-315

  Rahel, Frank J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Biotic homogenization; Extinctions; Introductions; Invasions; Nonindigenous; Species

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; EXTINCTION; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; HABITAT TYPE; HOMOGENEITY; ZOOGEOGRAPHY;

EID: 0036919047     PISSN: 00664162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.33.010802.150429     Document Type: Review

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