Species assemblages as descriptors of mesohabitats

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 344, Issue 1-3, 1997, Pages 111-128

  Pardo, Isabel ^a,b   Armitage, Patrick D ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b Campus Universitario ^*  (Spain)

Author keywords

Chalkstreams; Indicators; Macroinvertebrates; Mesohabitats; Species assemblages

Indexed keywords

CHALK STREAM; HABITAT CLASSIFICATION; MESOHABITAT; SPECIES ASSEMBLAGE;

RANUNCULACEAE; RANUNCULUS;

EID: 0030617091     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1002958412237     Document Type: Article

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