The relationships among three habitat scales and stream benthic invertebrate community structure

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 109-124

  Carter, J L ^a,b   Fend, S V ^a   Kennelly, S S ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b Mail Stop 465 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDINAL GRADIENT; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; MACROBENTHOS; SCALE; SPECIES RICHNESS;

USA, WASHINGTON, YAKIMA RIVER;

EID: 0029730238     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2427.1996.d01-450.x     Document Type: Article

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