Intermittently Closed Estuaries and Tadpole Communities: Influence of Artificial Breaching

Estuaries and Coasts

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 979-987

  Moreira, Leonardo Felipe Bairos ^a   Knauth, Débora Schuck ^a   Maltchik, Leonardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDADE DO VALE DO RIO DOS SINOS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amphibians; Floodplain; Hydroperiod; Lagoa do Peixe National Park; Salinity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930582024     PISSN: 15592723     EISSN: 15592731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12237-014-9852-z     Document Type: Article

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