Going with the flow: Using species-discharge relationships to forecast losses in fish biodiversity

Ecology

Volumn 87, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1907-1914

  Xenopoulos, Marguerite A ^a,b   Lodge, David M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Climate change; Freshwater biodiversity; Lower Ohio Upper Mississippi River Basin; Riverine fish; Scenarios; Southeastern USA; Species discharge curves; Stream flows; Water consumption

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EXTINCTION RISK; FISH; FORECASTING METHOD; RIVER DISCHARGE; SPECIES RICHNESS; WATER USE;

MISSISSIPPI; MISSISSIPPI RIVER; NORTH AMERICA; OHIO; UNITED STATES;

PISCES; SCAPHIRHYNCHUS PLATORYNCHUS;

EID: 33747083501     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: 00129658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2006)87[1907:GWTFUS]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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