Effects of macrophyte growth forms on invertebrate communities in saline lakes of the Wyoming High Plains

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 323, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 83-96

  Wollheim, Wilfred M ^a,b   Lovvorn, James R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b ECOSYSTEMS CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

macroinvertebrate communities; macrophyte growth forms; saline lakes; salinity

Indexed keywords

AMPHIPODA; GASTROPODA; INVERTEBRATA; PECTINATUS; POTAMOGETON; RUPPIA MARITIMA; STUCKENIA PECTINATUS;

AQUATIC MACROPHYTE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; GROWTH FORM; INVERTEBRATE COMMUNITY; SALINE LAKE; SALINITY;

USA, WYOMING;

EID: 0029660228     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00017586     Document Type: Article

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