Hydrogeomorphology and river impoundment affect food-chain length of diverse Neotropical food webs
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D. J. Hoeinghaus ([email protected]) and K. O. Winemiller, Section of Ecology, Evolutionary Biology and Systematics, Dept of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX 77843-2258, USA. Present address for DJH: Div. of Biology, Kansas State Univ., 104 Ackert Hall, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA. A. A. Agostinho, Núcleo de Pesquisas em Limnologia, Ictiologia e Aqüicultura, Univ. Estadual de Maringá, Maringá, BR 87020-900 Paraná, Brasil.
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