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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Instituto Internacional de Ecologia
2017-08-01
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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 |