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| ISBN: | 9780226044439
0226044432
9780226044422
0226044424
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| Digital file characteristics: | data file
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| Notes: | Originally published: San Diego, Calif. : Academic Press, 2001. With new preface.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 523-585) and index.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | With more than 29,000 species, fishes are the most diverse group of vertebrates on the planet. Of that number, more than 12,000 species are found in freshwater ecosystems, which occupy less than 1 percent of the Earth?s surface and contain only 2.4 percent of plant and animal species. But, on a hectare-for-hectare basis, freshwater ecosystems are richer in species than more extensive terrestrial and marine habitats. Examination of the distribution patterns of fishes in these fresh waters reveals much about continental movements and climate changes and has long been critical to biogeographical.
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| Other form: | Print version: Berra, Tim M., 1943- Freshwater fish distribution. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007 9780226044422 0226044424
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