Community structure of fish in lowland streams differ substantially between subtropical and temperate climates

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 684, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 143-160

  Teixeira de Mello, Franco ^a,b   Meerhoff, Mariana ^a,b,c   Baattrup Pedersen, Annette ^c   Maigaard, Thomas ^c   Kristensen, Peter B ^c   Andersen, Torben K ^c   Clemente, Juan M ^a,b,d   Fosalba, Claudia ^a,b   Kristensen, Esben A ^c   Masdeu, Malvina ^a   Riis, Tenna ^c   Mazzeo, Néstor ^a   Jeppesen, Erik ^c,e,f  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

^b Asociación Civil Investigación Y Desarrollo I D   (Uruguay)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^d Metrology Section   (Uruguay)

^e GREENLAND INSTITUTE OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Greenland)

^f Sino Danish Centre for Education and Research (SDC)   (China)

Author keywords

Climate change; Community metabolism; Metabolic theory of ecology; Size structure; Subtropical streams; Temperate streams

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM; BIOMASS; BODY SIZE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FISH; GLOBAL WARMING; LITERATURE REVIEW; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; METABOLISM; POPULATION DENSITY; SIZE STRUCTURE; SLOPE; SPECIES RICHNESS; SUBTROPICAL REGION; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

EUROPE; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 84856698154     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-011-0979-7     Document Type: Review

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