Modelling Stream-Fish Functional Traits in Reference Conditions: Regional and Local Environmental Correlates

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Oliveira, João M ^a,b   Segurado, Pedro ^b   Santos, José M ^b   Teixeira, Amílcar ^c   Ferreira, Maria T ^b   Cortes, Rui V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRÁS OS MONTES AND ALTO DOURO   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE AGRONOMIA   (Portugal)

^c INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO DE BRAGANÇA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CLIMATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY GRADIENT; ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; FISH; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); LATITUDE; NONHUMAN; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RIVER BASIN; RIVER ECOSYSTEM; SPECIES RICHNESS; STREAM (RIVER); TOPOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; CYPRINIDAE; GENETIC FITNESS; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PORTUGAL; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RIVERS;

EID: 84866670580     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0045787     Document Type: Article

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