Evaluating the relationship between basin-scale fish species richness and ecologically relevant flow characteristics in rivers worldwide

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 57, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2173-2180

  Iwasaki, Yuichi ^a   Ryo, Masahiro ^a   Sui, Pengzhe ^a   Yoshimura, Chihiro ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Environmental flow; Fish species diversity; Flow regime; Geographical distribution; River discharge

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865862405     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2012.02861.x     Document Type: Article

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