Morphological plasticity associated with environmental hypoxia in characiform fishes from neotropical floodplain lakes

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 391-402

  Scarabotti, Pablo A ^a,c   López, Javier A ^a,c   Ghirardi, Romina ^a,b   Parma, María Julieta ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE LIMNOLOGÍA CONICET UNL   (Argentina)

^b Instituto de Botanica Carlos Spegazzini   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL LITORAL   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Aquatic surface respiration; Dermal lip protuberances; Dissolved oxygen; Paran River Basin

Indexed keywords

BODY SHAPE; BODY SIZE; BONE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISSOLVED OXYGEN; DIVERGENCE; ECOMORPHOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FLOODPLAIN; LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENT; OPTIMIZATION; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; RESPIRATION; TELEOST;

ARGENTINA; BUENOS AIRES [ARGENTINA]; SALADO RIVER;

ACESTRORHYNCHUS; APHYOCHARAX; ASTYANAX; BRYCON; CTENOBRYCON; MYLOSSOMA; OLIGOSARCUS; PISCES; TRIPORTHEUS;

EID: 80053560638     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10641-011-9850-y     Document Type: Article

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