Variations of fish composition and diversity related to environmental variables in shallow lakes in the Yangtze River basin

Aquatic Living Resources

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 417-426

  Cheng, Lin ^a,b,c   Lek, Sovan ^c   Loot, Géraldine ^c   Lek Ang, Sithan ^c   Li, Zhongjie ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

CCA; Environmental variables; Fish diversity; Freshwater fish; Lake; PCA; Yangtze River basin

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CANONICAL ANALYSIS; CATCH PER UNIT EFFORT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; CYPRINID; DIVERSITY INDEX; DOMINANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HABITAT SELECTION; HERBIVORE; HETEROGENEITY; LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENT; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; SHALLOW WATER; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPRING WATER; WATER QUALITY;

BIANDANTANG LAKE; CHINA; HUBEI; LIANGZI LAKE; YANGTZE BASIN;

CYPRINIDAE; CYPRINIFORMES;

EID: 79551703601     PISSN: 09907440     EISSN: 17652952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/alr/2011001     Document Type: Article

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