Amazonian ecology: Tributaries enhance the diversity of electric fishes

Science

Volumn 305, Issue 5692, 2004, Pages 1960-1962

  Fernandes, Cristina Cox ^a,b   Podos, Jeffrey ^a   Lundberg, John G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^c ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FISHERIES; MARINE APPLICATIONS; RIVERS;

BIOGEOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC FISHES;

ECOLOGY;

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ICHTHYOFAUNA; RIVER; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES INVENTORY; TRIBUTARY; ZOOGEOGRAPHY;

COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; ELECTRIC FISH; GYMNOTIFORMES; ISLAND BIOGEOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RIVER ECOSYSTEM; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES ENDEMICITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CENTRAL AMERICA; ECOSYSTEM; ELECTRIC FISH; RIVERS; SOUTH AMERICA;

AMAZON RIVER; SOUTH AMERICA;

ELECTRIC FISH; GYMNOTIFORMES; PISCES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 4644289257     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1101240     Document Type: Review

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