Restricted-range fishes and the conservation of Brazilian freshwaters

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Nogueira, Cristiano ^a,e   Buckup, Paulo A ^b   Menezes, Naercio A ^c   Oyakawa, Osvaldo T ^c   Kasecker, Thais P ^d   Neto, Mario B Ramos ^a,f   da Silva, José Maria C ^d  

^a Programa Cerrado Pantanal   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^d Hospital Amazônia   (Brazil)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

^f Landscape Ecology Lab   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; ENDEMIC SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FISH; NONHUMAN; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES EXTINCTION; WATERSHED;

ANIMALS; BRAZIL; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; FISHES; FRESH WATER;

PISCES;

EID: 77956194961     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0011390     Document Type: Article

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