Spatial and temporal patterns in fish assemblages following an artificially extended floodplain inundation event, Northern Murray-Darling Basin, Australia

Environmental Management

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 822-833

  Rolls, Robert J ^a,b   Wilson, G Glenn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Environmental flows; Floodplain rivers; Habitat use; Migratory barriers; Murray Darling Basin; Recruitment

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL FLOW; FLOOD PLAINS; FLOODPLAIN RIVERS; HABITAT USE; MURRAY-DARLING BASIN;

BANKS (BODIES OF WATER); CATCHMENTS; ECOLOGY; EMPLOYMENT; FISH; FISHERIES; SOLVENT EXTRACTION;

RIVERS;

WATER;

ABUNDANCE; FISH; FLOODING; FLOODPLAIN; HABITAT USE; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); RIVER CHANNEL;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FISH; FLOODPLAIN; HABITAT QUALITY; HABITAT USE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PRIMARY PRODUCTION (BIOMASS); SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES HABITAT;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FLOODS; NEW SOUTH WALES; PERCIFORMES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; QUEENSLAND; RIVERS;

AUSTRALIA; MURRAY-DARLING BASIN;

MACQUARIA AMBIGUA; NEMATALOSA EREBI;

EID: 77952093119     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-010-9432-3     Document Type: Article

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