Effects of natural rapids and waterfalls on fish assemblage structure in the Madeira River (Amazon Basin)

Ecology of Freshwater Fish

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 588-597

  Torrente Vilara, Gislene ^a   Zuanon, Jansen ^a   Leprieur, Fabien ^b   Oberdorff, Thierry ^c   Tedesco, Pablo A ^c  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITÉ MONTPELLIER 2   (France)

^c INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

Compositional dissimilarity; Dam effects; Fish distribution; Natural geographical barrier; White waters

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054039209     PISSN: 09066691     EISSN: 16000633     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0633.2011.00508.x     Document Type: Article

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