Fish assemblage of restored Al-Hawizeh marsh, Southern Iraq

Ecohydrology and Hydrobiology

Volumn 8, Issue 2-4, 2008, Pages 375-384

  Mohamed, Abdul Razak M ^a   Hussain, Najah A ^a   Al Noor, Sajed S ^a   Mutlak, Falah M ^a   Al Sudani, Ibrahim M ^a   Mojer, Ahmed M ^a   Toman, Abas J ^a   Abdad, Mohamed A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASRAH   (Iraq)

Author keywords

Alien species; Diversity indices; Food habits; Mesopotamia wetlands; Species compositions

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); DIET; DIVERSITY INDEX; FISH; FOOD PREFERENCE; INTRODUCED SPECIES; MARSH; NICHE PARTITIONING; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES EVENNESS; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ASIA; EUPHRATES BASIN; EURASIA; IRAQ; MIDDLE EAST; TIGRIS BASIN;

BARBUS LUTEUS; CARASSIUS AURATUS; CYPRINIDAE; LIZA ABU; PISCES;

EID: 70349215167     PISSN: 16423593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/v10104-009-0029-5     Document Type: Article

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