Scales and causes of patchiness in stream invertebrate assemblages: Top-down predator effects?

Journal of the North American Benthological Society

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 277-285

  Crowl, Todd A ^a   Townsend, Colin R ^b   Bouwes, Nicolaas ^a   Thomas, Heather ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

behavioral avoidance; heterogeneity; macroinvertebrates; patchiness; predation; streams; variance

Indexed keywords

EPHEMEROPTERA; INVERTEBRATA; PLECOPTERA; RIPARIA; SALMONIDAE; TRICHOPTERA;

EID: 0030933222     PISSN: 08873593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1468257     Document Type: Article

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