Rapid biological assessments: How many animals are enough?

Journal of the North American Benthological Society

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 348-358

  Somers, Keith M ^a,b   Reid, Ron A ^a   David, Sheila M ^b,c  

^a ONTARIO MINISTRY OF THE ENVIRONMENT   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c SMD Technical Services   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biomonitoring; Indicators; Lakes; Littoral zones; Macroinvertebrates; Metrics; Power analysis; Variance components

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BENTHOS; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; MACROINVERTEBRATE; SAMPLING;

CANADA; ONTARIO;

AMPHIPODA; ANIMALIA; EPHEMEROPTERA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; PLECOPTERA; TRICHOPTERA;

EID: 0031742521     PISSN: 08873593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1468337     Document Type: Article

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