Response of stream invertebrates to a global-warming thermal regime: An ecosystem-level manipulation

Ecology

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 395-407

  Hogg, Ian D ^a,b   Dudley Williams, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adult emergence vs. temperature; Animal densities vs. temperature; Environmental temperature; Field experiments; Global warming; Headwater streams; Life histories; Lotic macroinvertebrates; Press perturbations; Sex ratio vs. temperature

Indexed keywords

AMPHIPODA; ANIMALIA; AZTECA; CHIRONOMIDAE; DIPTERA; HYALELLA AZTECA; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; LEPIDOSTOMA; LEPIDOSTOMA VERNALE; NEMOURA TRISPINOSA; PLECOPTERA; TRICHOPTERA;

EID: 0007687777     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2265617     Document Type: Article

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