Fish ladders: Safe fish passage or hotspot for predation?

Neotropical Ichthyology

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 687-696

  Agostinho, Angelo Antonio ^a   Agostinho, Carlos Sergio ^b   Pelicice, Fernando Mayer ^b   Marques, Elineide Eugênio ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF MARINGÁ   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO TOCANTINS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Dam; Fish migration; Fish pass; Piscivores; Serrasalmus

Indexed keywords

AVES; CHARACIFORMES; HYDROLYCUS ARMATUS; RHAPHIODON VULPINUS; SALMONIDAE; SERRASALMUS; SERRASALMUS RHOMBEUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84871182111     PISSN: 16796225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S1679-62252012000400001     Document Type: Article

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