Biodiversity changes in the lakes of the Central Yangtze

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 369-377

  Fang, Jingyun ^a   Wang, Zhiheng ^a   Zhao, Shuqing ^a   Li, Yongke ^a   Tang, Zhiyao ^a   Yu, Dan ^b   Ni, Leyi ^c   Liu, Huanzhang ^c   Xie, Ping ^c   Da, Liangjun ^d   Li, Zhongqiang ^b   Zheng, Chengyang ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (China)

^d EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; AQUATIC PLANT; BIODIVERSITY; BODY SIZE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DEGRADATION; ECOREGION; HISTORICAL ECOLOGY; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENT; LAND COVER; POPULATION SIZE; REMOTE SENSING; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; YANGTZE RIVER;

ANATIDAE; PISCES;

EID: 33748421890     PISSN: 15409295     EISSN: 15409309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1540-9295(2006)004[0369:BCITLO]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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