Heat and hypoxia give a global invader, Gambusia holbrooki, the edge over a threatened endemic fish on Australian floodplains

Biological Invasions

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2017, Pages 2477-2489

  Stoffels, Rick J ^a,b   Weatherman, Kyle E ^a   Allen Ankins, Slade ^b  

^a MURRAY DARLING FRESHWATER RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate change; Extreme climatic events; Functional traits; Mosquitofish; River regulation; Southern pygmy perch

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CYPRINID; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENDEMIC SPECIES; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; EXTINCTION; EXTREME EVENT; FLOODPLAIN; FUNCTIONAL ROLE; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; HEAT FLUX; INVASIVE SPECIES; NATIVE SPECIES; PERCIFORM; RIVER FLOW; WATER TEMPERATURE; WETLAND;

AUSTRALIA;

GAMBUSIA AFFINIS; GAMBUSIA HOLBROOKI; NANNOPERCA AUSTRALIS;

EID: 85019583817     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: 15731464     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-017-1457-6     Document Type: Article

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