Using ecological-niche modeling as a conservation tool for freshwater species: Live-bearing fishes in central Mexico

Conservation Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1730-1739

  Domínguez Domínguez, Omar ^a,b   Martínez Meyer, Enrique ^b   Zambrano, Luis ^b   De León, Gerardo Pérez Ponce ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD MICHOACANA DE SAN NICOLÁS DE HIDALGO   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Ecological niche modeling; Freshwater fishes; GARP; Goodeidae; Mexico

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER;

CONSERVATION STATUS; CYPRINID; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; GENETIC ALGORITHM; NICHE; RIVER BASIN; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES RICHNESS; VIVIPARITY;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FEMALE; FISH; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MEXICO; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; FISHES; FRESH WATER; MALE; MEXICO; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

AMECA RIVER; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA;

AMECA; CTENOPHARYNGODON IDELLA; CYPRINUS CARPIO; GOODEIDAE; OREOCHROMIS; PISCES; TILAPIA;

EID: 33845519720     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2006.00588.x     Document Type: Article

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