Flood pulse and the dynamics of fish assemblage structure from neotropical floodplain lakes

Ecology of Freshwater Fish

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 605-618

  Scarabotti, Pablo A ^a,b   López, Javier A ^a,b   Pouilly, Marc ^c  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE LIMNOLOGÍA CONICET UNL   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL LITORAL   (Argentina)

^c MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

Author keywords

Argentina; Determinism; Hydrological connectivity; Lowland rivers; Paran River Basin

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054010399     PISSN: 09066691     EISSN: 16000633     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0633.2011.00510.x     Document Type: Article

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