Spatial partitioning of fishes in the Río Paraguay, Paraguay

Interciencia

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2004, Pages

  Chernoff, Barry ^a   Willink, Philip W ^b   Machado Allison, Antonio ^c  

^a WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Conservation; Distribution; Fishes; Freshwater; Paraguay

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS; FLORA AND FAUNA; HETEROGENEOUS DISTRIBUTION; MACROHABITATS;

BANKS (BODIES OF WATER); CONSERVATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FLOODS; FORESTRY; GEOLOGY; OCEAN HABITATS; RAIN; ROCKS; SAND; STREAM FLOW; VEGETATION;

FISHERIES;

PISCES;

EID: 2542574139     PISSN: 03781844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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