Spatial variation in fish assemblages across a beaver-influenced successional landscape

Ecology

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1371-1382

  Schlosser, Isaac J ^a   Kallemeyn, Larry W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Beavers; Boundary effects; Castor canadensis; Dispersal; Fish assemblages; Landscape; Minnesota; Pond succession; Spatial hierarchy; Spatial scale; Successional mosaic; Voyageurs National Park, Minnesota (USA)

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING; ICHTHYOFAUNA; RODENT; SUCCESSION;

KABETOGAMA PENINSULA; MINNESOTA; UNITED STATES;

CULAEA INCONSTANS; LOTA LOTA; MICROPERTUS DOLOMIEUI; PERCA FLAVESCENS; PHOXINUS EOS; PHOXINUS NEOGAEUS; PIMEPHALES PROMELAS; POMOXIS NIGROMACULATUS;

EID: 0033923328     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2000)081[1371:SVIFAA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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