Fish recruitment in a large, temperate floodplain: The importance of annual flooding, temperature and habitat complexity

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 56, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2210-2225

  Górski, Konrad ^a   de Leeuw, Joep J ^a,e   Winter, Hendrik V ^a   Vekhov, Dmitry A ^b   Minin, Alexander E ^c   Buijse, Anthonie D ^d   Nagelkerke, Leopold A J ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b GosNIORKH State Institute for Lake and River Fisheries   (Russian Federation)

^c GosNIORKH State Institute for Lake and River Fisheries   (Russian Federation)

^d DELTARES   (Netherlands)

^e SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Flood pulse; Inundation; Life history; River; Seasonal dynamics; Volga river

Indexed keywords

ABRAMIS BRAMA; CARASSIUS GIBELIO; CYPRINIDAE; ESOX LUCIUS; LEUCISCUS IDUS; RUTILUS RUTILUS;

EID: 80053643545     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2011.02647.x     Document Type: Article

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