Predicting diversity of juvenile neotropical fish communities: Patch dynamics versus habitat state in floodplain creeks

Oecologia

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 503-516

  Mérigoux, Sylvie ^a   Hugueny, Bernard ^a   Ponton, Dominique ^b   Statzner, Bernhard ^a   Vauchel, Philippe ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^c INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (Senegal)

Author keywords

Habitat diversity; Hydrological variability; Species richness; Young fish

Indexed keywords

FISH; FLOODPLAIN; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPECIES RICHNESS; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

EID: 18544405074     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004420050753     Document Type: Article

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