Effects of natural and anthropogenic environmental changes on riverine fish assemblages: a framework for ecological assessment of rivers

FL Tejerina-Garro, M Maldonado, C Ibañez… - Brazilian Archives of …, 2005‏ - SciELO Brasil
Freshwater is a basic need for the mankind. Effective biological tools (ecologically based,
efficient, rapid and consistently applicable to different ecological regions) are needed to …

[ספר][B] Historical biogeography of Neotropical freshwater fishes

JS Albert, R Reis - 2011‏ - books.google.com
The fish faunas of continental South and Central America constitute one of the greatest
concentrations of aquatic diversity on Earth, consisting of about 10 percent of all living …

Habitat structural complexity and morphological diversity of fish assemblages in a Neotropical floodplain river

SC Willis, KO Winemiller, H Lopez-Fernandez - Oecologia, 2005‏ - Springer
High species richness and evenness in structurally complex habitats has been hypothesized
to be associated with niche partitioning. To test this idea, relationships between habitat …

Fish ecology in tropical streams

KO Winemiller, AA Agostinho, ÉP Caramaschi - Tropical stream ecology, 2008‏ - Elsevier
Publisher Summary This chapter emphasizes the ecological responses of fishes to spatial
and temporal variation in tropical stream habitats. It also discusses the steps to alleviate …

Effects of deforestation on fish community structure in Ecuadorian Amazon streams

BH Bojsen, R Barriga - Freshwater Biology, 2002‏ - Wiley Online Library
There is little information on the impacts of deforestation on the fish fauna in neotropical
streams, and on parameters influencing species diversity and community structure of fish …

Evaluating the use of ram and suction during prey capture by cichlid fishes

PC Wainwright, LA Ferry-Graham… - Journal of …, 2001‏ - journals.biologists.com
We characterized prey-capture strategies in seven species of cichlid fishes representing
diverse trophic habits and anticipated feeding abilities. The species examined were Petenia …

[ספר][B] Nouragues: dynamics and plant-animal interactions in a neotropical rainforest

F Bongers, P Charles-Dominique, PM Forget, M Théry - 2013‏ - books.google.com
Nouragues is a tropical forest research station in French Guiana. It was established in 1986
for research on natural mechanisms of forest regeneration. Since then a lot of research has …

Seasonal and habitat influences on fish communities within the lower Yasuni River basin of the Ecuadorian Amazon

K Galacatos, R Barriga-Salazar, DJ Stewart - Environmental Biology of …, 2004‏ - Springer
We sampled lagoon, river and forest stream habitats during the rising water, wet, falling
water, and dry seasons in the lowland region of the Yasuni National Reserve in the …

Habitat affinity, the seasonal flood pulse, and community assembly in the littoral zone of a Neotropical floodplain river

DA Arrington, KO Winemiller - Journal of the North American …, 2006‏ - journals.uchicago.edu
The annual flood pulse in tropical lowland rivers creates a continually moving land–water
margin that forces aquatic organisms of the littoral zone to relocate to new habitats at …

Convergence of temperate and tropical stream fish assemblages

C Ibañez, J Belliard, RM Hughes, P Irz… - …, 2009‏ - Wiley Online Library
The hypothesis of convergence takes the deterministic view that community (or assemblage)
structure can be predicted from the environment, and that the environment is expected to …