Abundance and species richness as a function of food resources and vegetation structure: Juvenile fish assemblages in rivers

Ecography

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 641-650

  Grenouillet, Gaël ^a   Pont, Didier ^a   Seip, Knut L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b SINTEF   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; FOOD AVAILABILITY; RIVER; SPECIES RICHNESS; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

ALISMATACEAE; CERATOPHYLLUM; NUPHAR; SAGITTARIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036936096     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0587.2002.250601.x     Document Type: Article

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