Fish assemblages and habitat in a Malaysian blackwater peat swamp

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-13

  Beamish, F William H ^a,b   Beamish, Robert B ^b   Lim, Susan L H ^c  

^a BURAPHA UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Abiotic factors; Abundance; Ecology; Environment; Richness; Selangor; Species; Species occurrence

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ICHTHYOFAUNA; SPECIES RICHNESS; SWAMP; WATER CHEMISTRY;

MALAYSIA; SELANGOR; WEST MALAYSIA;

ICHTHYOFAUNA;

EID: 0242369986     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1026004315978     Document Type: Article

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