On the relative importance of pool morphology and woody debris to distributions of shrimp in a Puerto Rican headwater stream

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 405, Issue , 1999, Pages 207-215

  Pyron, Mark ^a,c   Covich, Alan P ^a   Black, Robert W ^a,b  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c BEHREND COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Freshwater shrimp; Puerto Rico; Stream ecology; Tropical ecology; Woody debris

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DISTRIBUTION; EEL; HABITAT; MORPHOLOGY; MULLET; POOL; PUERTO RICO; RAINFOREST; STREAM; WOOD DEBRIS;

CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; CRUSTACEAN; HABITAT STRUCTURE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STREAM BED; WOODY DEBRIS;

PUERTO RICO;

ATYA LANIPES; ATYIDAE; DECAPODA; MACROBRACHIUM CARCINUS; MACROBRACHIUM CRENULATUM; XIPHOCARIS ELONGATA;

EID: 0033563389     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1003831828423     Document Type: Article

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