Does flooding affect spatiotemporal variation of fish assemblages in temperate floodplain wetlands?

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 57, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2230-2246

  Beesley, Leah ^a   King, Alison J ^a,c   Amtstaetter, Frank ^a   Koehn, John D ^a   Gawne, Ben ^b   Price, Amina ^b   Nielsen, Daryl L ^b   Vilizzi, Lorenzo ^b   Meredith, Shaun N ^b,d  

^a ARTHUR RYLAH INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^b MURRAY DARLING FRESHWATER RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

^c CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d Swan River Trust   (Australia)

Author keywords

Environmental allocation; Environmental flow; Fish recruitment; Spatiotemporal; Wetland restoration

Indexed keywords

CYPRINIDAE; CYPRINUS CARPIO; GOBIO; HYPSELEOTRIS;

EID: 84867004301     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2012.02865.x     Document Type: Article

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