Determinism in fish assemblages of floodplain lakes of the vastly disturbed Mississippi Alluvial Valley

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 133, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 358-370

  Miranda, L E ^a   Lucas, G M ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b MS Dept of Wildl Fish and Parks   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DISTURBANCE; FLOODPLAIN; ICHTHYOFAUNA; LAKE; MORPHOLOGY; OPTICAL PROPERTY;

MISSISSIPPI VALLEY; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ICHTHYOFAUNA;

EID: 1642304062     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/03-060     Document Type: Article

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