Physical habitat simulation for small-sized characid fish species from tropical rivers in Brazil

ABSTRACT Physical habitat simulation (PHABSIM) is an important step of the instream flow incremental methodology (IFIM), which is applied to establish environmental flow regimes. This study applied the PHABSIM in two reaches of the Velhas river basin, whose long-term discharges are similar but are u...

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Main Authors: Hersília de Andrade e Santos, Cecília Gontijo Leal, Paulo Santos Pompeu, Ceceo Chaves, Stephanie Fernandes Cunha
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Ictiologia 2018-12-01
Series:Neotropical Ichthyology
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1679-62252018000400210&lng=en&tlng=en