Effects of sample size (replicate number) on similarity measures in river benthic Aufwuchs community analysis

Water Environment Research

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 107-114

  Cao, Yong ^a,b   Williams, W Peter ^a   Bark, Anthony W ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

aquatic; communities; ecology; macroinvertebrates; sample size; similarity indices

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RANDOM PROCESSES; SAMPLING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

BENTHIC COMMUNITIES; MACROINVERTEBRATES; SAMPLE SIZE; SIMILARITY INDICES;

RIVERS;

FRESH WATER; RIVER WATER;

ARTICLE; ECOLOGY; INVERTEBRATE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; WATER QUALITY; WATER SAMPLING;

EID: 0031031182     PISSN: 10614303     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2175/106143097X125236     Document Type: Article

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