Metacommunity patterns across three Neotropical catchments with varying environmental harshness

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 277-292

  Datry, Thibault ^a,b,c   Melo, Adriano S ^d   Moya, Nabor ^c,e   Zubieta, Jose ^c   De la Barra, Evans ^c   Oberdorff, Thierry ^b,c  

^a UR MALY   (France)

^b MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^c UNIVERSIDAD MAYOR DE SAN SIMÓN   (Bolivia)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF GOIÁS   (Brazil)

^e UNIBOL Quechua Casimiro Huanca   (Bolivia)

Author keywords

Biological traits; Dispersal; Distance decay relationships; Fish; Invertebrates

Indexed keywords

EID: 84956582540     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/fwb.12702     Document Type: Article

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