Physical determinants of richness, diversity, evenness and abundance in natural aquatic microcosms

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 412, Issue , 1999, Pages 123-130

  Therriault, Thomas W ^a   Kolasa, Jurek ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Abundance; Aquatic; Biomass; Diversity; Evenness; Physical determinants

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES EVENNESS; SPECIES RICHNESS;

EID: 0033208150     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1003816819762     Document Type: Article

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