An initial assessment of drought sensitivity in Amazonian fish communities

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 705, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 159-171

  Freitas, Carlos E C ^a   Siqueira Souza, Flávia K ^a   Humston, Robert ^b   Hurd, Lawrence E ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF AMAZONAS   (Brazil)

^b WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amazon River Basin; Climate change; Drought impact; Floodplain lakes; Freshwater fish diversity; Tropical fish ecology

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ASSESSMENT METHOD; CARNIVORE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DROUGHT STRESS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FISH; FLOODPLAIN; GLOBAL WARMING; MIGRATORY BEHAVIOR; OMNIVORY; POPULATION DECLINE; RAINFOREST; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

AMAZON BASIN; AMAZONAS [BRAZIL]; BRAZIL; SOLIMOES BASIN;

EID: 84874000257     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-012-1394-4     Document Type: Article

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