Résumé :
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The book begins by addressing the general patterns of the diversity of fishes worldwide, the diversity structure, and stability of local fish assemblages, and the limnological and physical features that influence local assemblages. The second part focuses on factors that features that influence the structure of local fish assemblages. It includes a review of global and regional zoogeography and distributional history of freshwater fishes through evolutionnary times, and explores environmental stress factors, morphology and life history, and interactive factors. The final section of the book summarizes known influences of fish species or local assemblages on ecosystem structure or processes where they do occur.
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