The importance of spatial scales to analysis of fish diversity in Amazonian floodplain lakes and implications for conservation

Ecology of Freshwater Fish

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 470-477

  Freitas, Carlos E C ^a   Siqueira Souza, Flávia K ^a   Florentino, Alexandro C ^a   Hurd, Lawrence E ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF AMAZONAS   (Brazil)

^b WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity measurement; Fish species diversity; Floodplain lakes; Metacommunities; Spatial scales in ecology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901835169     PISSN: 09066691     EISSN: 16000633     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/eff.12099     Document Type: Article

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