Fish assemblage stability in an intermittently flowing stream from the Brazilian semiarid region

Austral Ecology

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 156-164

  Medeiros, Elvio S F ^a   Maltchik, Leonardo ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARAÍBA   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDADE DO VALE DO RIO DOS SINOS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Brazil; Disturbance; Diversity; Drought; Fish; Flood; Intermittent stream; Semiarid; Stability

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037887609     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1442-9993.2001.01099.x     Document Type: Article

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