Immediate impacts of the second impoundment on fish communities in the Three Gorges Reservoir

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 163-173

  Gao, Xin ^a,b,c   Zeng, Yu ^a,b,c   Wang, Jianwei ^a,c   Liu, Huanzhang ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Fish community; Reservoir impoundment; Three Gorges Reservoir; Yangtze River

Indexed keywords

CATCH COMPOSITION; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; FILL; FISHERY PRODUCTION; HABITAT CONSERVATION; IMPOUNDMENT; LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENT; RESERVOIR;

CHINA; YANGTZE RIVER;

EID: 77949655069     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10641-009-9577-1     Document Type: Article

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