Patterns of diversity, altitudinal range and body size among freshwater fishes in the Yangtze River basin, China

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 543-552

  Fu, Cuizhang ^a   Wu, Jihua ^a   Wang, Xinyi ^a   Lei, Guangchun ^a   Chen, Jiakuan ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bergmann's rule; Body size; China; Diversity; Elevational gradient; Freshwater fish; Geographical range; Macroecology; Rapoport's rule; Yangtze River

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; BERGMANN RULE; BODY SIZE; ICHTHYOFAUNA; RAPOPORT RULE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; ZOOGEOGRAPHY; BIODIVERSITY; ENDEMIC SPECIES; FISH; POPULATION DENSITY; RANGE SIZE; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ASIA; CHINA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; WORLD; YANGTZE RIVER;

COBITIDAE; CYPRINIDAE; CYPRINIFORMES; PISCES;

EID: 8644249761     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-822X.2004.00122.x     Document Type: Article

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