Seasonal patterns in the distribution of three species of freshwater shrimp, macrobrachium spp., along an altitudinal river gradient

Crustaceana

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 385-397

  Mejía Ortíz, Luis M ^a   Alvarez, Fernando ^b  

^a Laboratorio de Bioespeleología y Carcinología   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ALTITUDE; CRUSTACEAN; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; ESTUARINE FRONT; FLOW VELOCITY; LOTIC ENVIRONMENT; PH; SALINITY; SAMPLING; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

HUITZILAPAN RIVER; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; VERACRUZ;

ANIMALIA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); MACROBRACHIUM; MACROBRACHIUM ACANTHURUS; MACROBRACHIUM CARCINUS; MACROBRACHIUM HETEROCHIRUS;

EID: 77950523585     PISSN: 0011216X     EISSN: 15685403     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/001121610X489368     Document Type: Article

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