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SUBMITTER: Lo M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7231604 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lo Michaela M Reed James J Castello Leandro L Steel E Ashley EA Frimpong Emmanuel A EA Ickowitz Amy A
Bioscience 20200401 5
Tropical forests influence freshwater fish through multiple pathways, only some of which are well documented. We systematically reviewed the literature to assess the current state of knowledge on forests and freshwater fish in the tropics. The existing evidence is mostly concentrated in the neotropics. The majority of studies provided evidence that fish diversity was higher where there was more forest cover; this was related to the greater heterogeneity of resources in forested environments that ...[more]