Elevational Gradients in Fish Diversity in the Himalaya: Water Discharge Is the Key Driver of Distribution Patterns

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Bhatt, Jay P ^a   Manish, Kumar ^a   Pandit, Maharaj K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ASIA; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; FISH; GEOGRAPHIC ELEVATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION MOVEMENT PATTERN; PREDICTION; RIVER ECOSYSTEM; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES ENDEMICITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; WATER DISCHARGE; WATER QUALITY; WATER SAMPLING;

ALTITUDE; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; FISHES; GEOGRAPHY; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RIVERS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

PISCES;

EID: 84866889212     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0046237     Document Type: Article

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