A preliminary fish assemblage index for a transitional river-reservoir system in southeastern Brazil

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 874-881

  Terra, Bianca De Freitas ^a   Araújo, Francisco Gerson ^a  

^a FEDERAL RURAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Bioassessment; Monitoring; Reservoirs; River Reservoir Fish Assemblage Index

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM; BIOASSESSMENT; DRY AND WET; ECOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS; EXCHANGE RATES; FISH ASSEMBLAGES; FISH SPECIES; HIGH ORGANIC; LARGE RIVERS; NATIVE SPECIES; NATURAL SYSTEMS; NON-NATIVE; REFERENCE SITES; RESERVOIR SITES; RESERVOIR SYSTEMS; RESERVOIRS; RIVERS AND LAKES; SOUTHEASTERN BRAZIL; THERMAL LOADINGS; TOLERANT SPECIES;

ECOSYSTEMS; FISH; RIVERS; WATER SUPPLY;

RESERVOIRS (WATER);

BIOMONITORING; DAM; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; GILLNET; NATIVE SPECIES; RESERVOIR; RIVER SYSTEM; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY; WATER SUPPLY;

BRAZIL;

SILURIFORMES;

EID: 78751569737     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2010.11.006     Document Type: Article

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