Patterns in the distribution of freshwater fishes in rivers of Central Western Ghats, India and their associations with environmental gradients

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 529, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 83-97

  Bhat, Anuradha ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

community structure; composition; correlation; multivariate analysis; species richness; stream parameters

Indexed keywords

FEEDING GUILDS; HERBIVORES; SPECIES;

COMPOSITION; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RIVERS;

FISHERIES;

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; ICHTHYOFAUNA; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RIVER; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA; WESTERN GHATS; WORLD;

KALI; PISCES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 8744263787     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-004-4949-1     Document Type: Article

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