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Assessing fish distribution and threats to fish biodiversity in the Yangtze River Basin, China

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The study was financially supported by the “Special Fund for Agro-scientific Research in the Public Interest” (No. 200903048-04), the National Science Foundation of China (No. 30900182), and the Science and Technology Research Project of China Three Gorges Corporation (No. CT-12-08-01). We appreciate the valuable comments of the three anonymous reviewers on an early version of this paper. We are grateful to Dr. Fengyue Zhu for his revision of the figures.

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    Shaowen Ye, Zhongjie Li, Tanglin Zhang, Jiashou Liu & Songguang Xie

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Ye, S., Li, Z., Zhang, T. et al. Assessing fish distribution and threats to fish biodiversity in the Yangtze River Basin, China. Ichthyol Res 61, 183–188 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10228-013-0376-5

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