Fishers' knowledge identifies environmental changes and fish abundance trends in impounded tropical rivers.

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• Publication year

  2013

• Venue

  Ecological Applications

• Publication date

  2013-03-01

• Fields of study

  Geography, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1890/12-0429.1PMID 23634590
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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