Seasonal and habitat influences on fish communities within the lower Yasuni River basin of the Ecuadorian Amazon

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 33-51

  Galacatos, K ^a   Barriga Salazar, R ^b   Stewart, D J ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b ESCUELA POLITÉCNICA NACIONAL   (Ecuador)

Author keywords

community structure; floodplain; neotropical; piscivore transparency morphometry (PTM) model

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; HABITAT; ICHTHYOFAUNA; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ECUADOR; NAPO RIVER; SOUTH AMERICA; YASUNI NATIONAL PARK;

BRACHYPLATYSTOMA; CATFISH; CHARACIDAE; CURIMATA; CYPHOCHARAX; HEMIGRAMMUS; HOPLIAS MALABARICUS; HYPHESSOBRYCON; HYPHESSOBRYCON COPELANDI; NEMADORAS; PIMELODELLA; PISCES; SILURIFORMES; SORUBIM; SORUBIM LIMA;

EID: 5444223674     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:EBFI.0000043156.69324.94     Document Type: Article

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