Condition factor variations over time and trophic position among four species of Characidae from Amazonian floodplain lakes: effects of an anomalous drought

Abstract The effects of extreme droughts on freshwater fish remain unknown worldwide. In this paper, we estimated the condition factor, a measure of relative fitness based on the relationship of body weight to length, in four fish species representing two trophic levels (omnivores and piscivores) fr...

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Main Authors: I. A. Tribuzy-Neto, K. G. Conceição, F. K. Siqueira-Souza, L. E. Hurd, C. E. C. Freitas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto Internacional de Ecologia 2017-08-01
Series:Brazilian Journal of Biology
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1519-69842017005110112&lng=en&tlng=en