Unsaturated Fish Communities in African Rivers

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Previous articleNext article No AccessNotes and CommentsUnsaturated Fish Communities in African RiversBernard Hugueny and Didier PaugyBernard Hugueny Search for more articles by this author and Didier Paugy Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The American Naturalist Volume 146, Number 1Jul., 1995 Published for The American Society of Naturalists Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/285792 Views: 15Total views on this site Citations: 62Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 1995 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Łukasz Głowacki, Joanna Leszczyńska, Maria Grzybkowska, Kacper Pyrzanowski, Małgorzata Dukowska, Mirosław Przybylski Determinants of chironomid species richness in mid-European temperate rivers – Environmental factors, regional influences, diversity, and seasons, Ecological Indicators 147 (Mar 2023): 109838.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2022.109838Gina Walsh, Marco P. 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