Stream fish communities and their associations to habitat variables in a rain forest reserve in southeastern Brazil

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 321-340

  Gerhard, Pedro ^a   Moraes, Rosana ^b   Molander, Sverker ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b GOLDER ASSOCIATES LTD   (Canada)

^c CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

assemblage organization; Atlantic rain forest; fish habitat; human impacts; stream diversity

Indexed keywords

HUMAN ACTIVITY; ICHTHYOFAUNA; RAINFOREST; SPATIAL VARIATION; STREAM;

BRAZIL; SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

PARANAPIACABA;

EID: 9644281568     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10641-004-1260-y     Document Type: Article

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