Quantifying spatial heterogeneity in streams

Journal of the North American Benthological Society

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 174-188

  Cooper, Scott D ^a   Barmuta, Leon ^b   Sarnelle, Orlando ^a   Kratz, Kim ^a   Diehl, Sebastian ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

consumers; maps; patchiness; resources; semivariograms; spatial heterogeneity; spatial statistics; streams; trends; variability

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030933220     PISSN: 08873593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1468250     Document Type: Article

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