Linking fish colonization rates and water level change in littoral habitats of a Venezuelan floodplain river

Aquatic Ecology

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 269-273

  Layman, Craig A ^a   Montaña, Carmen G ^b   Allgeier, Jacob E ^c  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dispersal; Disturbance; Food web; Hydrology; Metapopulation; Patch dynamics

Indexed keywords

COLONIZATION; DISPERSAL; DISTURBANCE; FAUNA; FISH BIOLOGY; FLOODPLAIN; FOOD WEB; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; HYDROLOGY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; METAPOPULATION; PATCH DYNAMICS; RIVER; TROPICAL REGION; WATER LEVEL;

VENEZUELA;

EID: 77049127342     PISSN: 13862588     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10452-009-9256-5     Document Type: Article

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