Fresh waters and fish diversity: Distribution, protection and disturbance in tropical Australia

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Januchowski Hartley, Stephanie R ^a   Pearson, Richard G ^a   Puschendorf, Robert ^a   Rayner, Thomas ^b  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER;

ANIMAL CARE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIODIVERSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FISH; HUMAN IMPACT (ENVIRONMENT); INVASIVE SPECIES; LAND USE; NONHUMAN; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TERRESTRIAL SPECIES; TROPICS; WETLAND; ANIMAL; RIVER; STATISTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; FISHES; FRESH WATER; MODELS, THEORETICAL; QUEENSLAND; RIVERS; TROPICAL CLIMATE; WETLANDS;

EID: 80053595678     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0025846     Document Type: Article

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