Agricultural and Biological Sciences
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Decline in Freshwater Flow Leads to Shift in Fish Species in Iraq River.

Asian Journal of Applied Sciences
Compositional Change in Fish Assemblage Structure in the Shatt Al-Arab River, Iraq
Abdul-Razak M. Mohamed, Abdullah N. Abood

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