Changes in prairie stream fish assemblages restricted to isolated streambed pools

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 133, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1329-1338

  Ostrand, Kenneth G ^a,b   Wilde, Gene R ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; EPHEMERAL POOL; ICHTHYOFAUNA;

BRAZOS RIVER; NORTH AMERICA; TEXAS; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

CYPRINELLA; CYPRINELLA LUTRENSIS; CYPRINIDAE; CYPRINODON; CYPRINODON RUBROFLUVIATILIS; GAMBUSIA; GAMBUSIA AFFINIS; HYBOGNATHUS; HYBOGNATHUS PLACITUS; NOTROPIS; NOTROPIS BUCCULA; NOTROPIS OXYRHYNCHUS; OXYRHYNCHUS; PHOXINUS PHOXINUS;

EID: 8544249188     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T03-193.1     Document Type: Article

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