Ecological heterogeneity in streams: Why variance matters

Journal of the North American Benthological Society

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 189-202

  Palmer, Margaret A ^a   Hakenkamp, Christine C ^a   Nelson Baker, Kären ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

chironomids; copepods; flow variability; spatial heterogeneity; streams; variance

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR ORGANISMS; CHIRONOMIDAE; COPEPODA;

EID: 0030979114     PISSN: 08873593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1468251     Document Type: Article

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