All that goes up must come down? Absence of downstream passage through a fish ladder in a large Amazonian river

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 675, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-12

  Agostinho, Carlos Sérgio ^a   Pelicice, Fernando Mayer ^a   Marques, Elineide Eugênio ^a   Soares, Anderson Brito ^a   de Almeida, Deusimar Augusto Alves ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO TOCANTINS   (Brazil)

^b Investco SA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Conservation; Fish ladder; Management; Migratory fish; South America

Indexed keywords

DAM; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; MIGRATORY SPECIES; MOVEMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

AMAZON RIVER;

PISCES;

EID: 79959278555     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-011-0787-0     Document Type: Article

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