Aquatic plant communities and predictors of diversity in a sub-tropical river floodplain: The upper Rio Paraná, Brazil

Aquatic Botany

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 257-276

  Murphy, K J ^a   Dickinson, G ^b   Thomaz, S M ^c   Bini, L M ^c   Dick, K ^a   Greaves, K ^a   Kennedy, M P ^a   Livingstone, S ^a   McFerran, H ^b   Milne, J M ^a   Oldroyd, J ^a   Wingfield, R A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF MARINGÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Aquatic macrophytes; Biodiversity; River ecology; Tropical riverine wetlands

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC PLANT; FIELD SURVEY; FLOODPLAIN; PLANT COMMUNITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

BRAZIL; PARANA RIVER; SOUTH AMERICA;

CYPERUS; CYPERUS DIFFUSUS; EICHHORNIA; EICHHORNIA AZUREA; EICHHORNIA CRASSIPES; LIMNOBIUM; LIMNOBIUM LAEVIGATUM; MYRIOPHYLLUM; MYRIOPHYLLUM AQUATICUM; NYMPHAEA; NYMPHAEA AMAZONUM; POLYGONUM; POLYGONUM FERRUGINEUM; SALVINIA;

EID: 0345598054     PISSN: 03043770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3770(03)00108-6     Document Type: Article

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