Movement and habitat use by the marbled lungfish Protopterus aethiopicus Heckel 1851 in Lake Baringo, Kenya

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 537, Issue 1-3, 2005, Pages 229-238

  Mlewa, Chrisestom Mwatete ^a   Green, John M ^b   Simms, Alvin ^b  

^a MOI UNIVERSITY   (Kenya)

^b MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

Daily movement; Home range; Horizontal movement; Site fidelity; Tag expulsion; Ultrasonic telemetry

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOTECHNOLOGY; LAKES; OCEAN HABITATS; TELEMETERING; ULTRASONICS;

BIOLOGICAL STUDY; BIOTICS; LUNGFISH; ULTRASONIC TELEMETRY;

MARINE BIOLOGY;

MOVEMENT;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; KENYA; LAKE BARINGO; RIFT VALLEY; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WORLD;

PROTOPTERUS AETHIOPICUS;

EID: 20144376008     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-004-3076-3     Document Type: Article

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