Development of habitat suitability criteria for Neotropical stream fishes and an assessment of their transferability to streams with different conservation status

We assessed the preference of 10 fish species for depth and velocity conditions in forested streams from southeastern Brazil using habitat suitability criteria (HSC curves). We also tested whether preference patterns observed in forested streams can be transferred to deforested streams. We used data...

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Main Authors: Fabrício Barreto Teresa, Lilian Casatti
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Ictiologia
Series:Neotropical Ichthyology
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1679-62252013000200395&lng=en&tlng=en