Local and ecoregion effects on fish assemblage structure in tributaries of the Rio Paraíba do Sul, Brazil

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2600-2615

  Pinto, Benjamin Carvalho Teixeira ^a   Araujo, Francisco Gerson ^a   Rodrigues, Vitor Dantas ^a   Hughes, Robert M ^b  

^a FEDERAL RURAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fish communities; Habitat; Landscape; Streams; Tropics; Watershed

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449560642     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2009.02269.x     Document Type: Article

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