Contrasting habitat associations of imperilled endemic stream fishes from a global biodiversity hot spot

Title: Contrasting habitat associations of imperilled endemic stream fishes from a global biodiversity hot spot
Creator: Chakona, Albert
Creator: Swartz, Ernst R
Date Issued: 2012
Date: 2012
Type: Article
Identifier: vital:7148
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1011850
Identifier: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6785/12/19
Description: Knowledge of the factors that drive species distributions provides a fundamental baseline for several areas of research including biogeography, phylogeography and biodiversity conservation. Data from 148 minimally disturbed sites across a large drainage system in the Cape Floristic Region of South Africa were used to test the hypothesis that stream fishes have similar responses to environmental determinants of species distribution. Two complementary statistical approaches, boosted regression trees and hierarchical partitioning, were used to model the responses of four fish species to 11 environmental predictors, and to quantify the independent explanatory power of each predictor.
Format: 13 pages
Format: pdf
Language: English
Relation: Chakona, A. and Swartz, E.R. Contrasting habitat associations of imperilled endemic stream fishes from a global biodiversity hot spot. BMC Ecology, 12. Article no. 19. Available: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6785/12/19

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