Controls of local young-of-the-year fish species richness in flood plain water bodies: Potential effects of habitat heterogeneity, productivity and colonisation-extinction events

Ecology of Freshwater Fish

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 144-154

  Tales, E ^a,c   Berrebi, R ^b  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b Immeuble le Péricentre ^*  (France)

^c National Research Institute of Science and Technology for Environment and Agriculture   (France)

Author keywords

Backwaters; Connectivity; Fish species richness; Habitat diversity; Productivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248394339     PISSN: 09066691     EISSN: 16000633     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0633.2007.00206.x     Document Type: Article

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