Habitat fragmentation and extinction rates within freshwater fish communities: A faunal relaxation approach

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 449-463

  Hugueny, Bernard ^a,b   Movellan, Aurore ^a   Belliard, Jérôme ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^c National Research Institute of Science and Technology for Environment and Agriculture   (France)

Author keywords

Channel River; Dispersal; Faunal relaxation; Fossils; Incidence functions; Island biogeography; River fishes; Species area

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; EXTINCTION; FAUNA; FISH; FOSSIL RECORD; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SPECIALIST; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP;

ENGLISH CHANNEL; FRANCE;

PISCES; SALMONIDAE;

EID: 79953778017     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00614.x     Document Type: Article

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