Distribution patterns of fish assemblages in an Eastern Mediterranean intermittent river

Knowledge and Management of Aquatic Ecosystems

Volumn , Issue 416, 2015, Pages

  Vardakas, L ^a,b   Kalogianni, E ^a   Zogaris, S ^a   Koutsikos, N ^a   Vavalidis, T ^a   Koutsoubas, D ^b   Skoulikidis, N Th ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

Author keywords

Distribution patterns; Drought; Fish assemblages; Intermittent; Mediterranean

Indexed keywords

EID: 84948433333     PISSN: 19619502     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/kmae/2015026     Document Type: Article

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