Mapping China's freshwater fishes: Diversity and biogeography

Fish and Fisheries

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 209-230

  Kang, Bin ^a   Deng, Junming ^b   Wu, Yunfei ^c   Chen, Liqiang ^d   Zhang, Jie ^e   Qiu, Haiyuan ^f   Lu, Yin ^d   He, Daming ^d  

^a YUNNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b YUNNAN AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^d Key Laboratory of International River and Trans boundary Eco Security   (China)

^e INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^f Fujian Monitoring Center of Geological Environment   (China)

Author keywords

Cyprinidae; Discharge; Distribution; Geological event; NPP; River system

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; CONSERVATION PLANNING; CYPRINID; DAM CONSTRUCTION; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; INTRODUCED SPECIES; NATURE RESERVE; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; OVERFISHING; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION SIZE; RIVER DISCHARGE; RIVER POLLUTION; RIVER SYSTEM; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

CHINA; HEILONGJIANG; LOESS PLATEAU; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; YANGTZE BASIN;

BALITORIDAE; CYPRINIDAE; CYPRINIFORMES; PISCES; SILURIFORMES;

EID: 84899061622     PISSN: 14672960     EISSN: 14672979     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/faf.12011     Document Type: Article

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