Small-scale gold mining erodes fish assemblage structure in small neotropical streams

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1013-1026

  Brosse, Sebastien ^a   Grenouillet, Gaël ^a   Gevrey, Muriel ^a,b   Khazraie, Kamran ^c   Tudesque, Loïc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

^c Délégation Territoriale du Centre   (French Guiana)

Author keywords

Compositional similarity; Fish species traits; Functional diversity; NMDS; Resilience; Turbidity

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FISH; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; GOLD MINE; HABITAT TYPE; NEOTROPICAL REGION; SEDIMENT; SPECIES RICHNESS; STREAM; TAXONOMY; TOXIC SUBSTANCE; TURBIDITY;

FRENCH GUIANA;

EID: 79955033404     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-011-0011-6     Document Type: Article

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