Spatial use of the nekton community in a subtropical shallow lake without piscivorous fish
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Guillermo Goyenola*1, Carlos Iglesias1, Mariana Meerhoff1,2 Elena Rodó1 and Nestor Mazzeo1 1 Grupo de investigación en Ecología y rehabilitación de sistemas acuáticos someros, Departamento de Ecología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de la República. Iguá 4225, CP 11400, Montevideo, Uruguay. *e-mail: [email protected] 2 Department of Freshwater Ecology, National Environmental Research Institute, Denmark. Introduction
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