Effects of depth, salinity, and substrate on the invertebrate community of a fluctuating tropical lake

Ecology

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 164-182

  Verschuren, Dirk ^a,c   Tibby, John ^b   Sabbe, Kohn ^c   Roberts, Neil ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^d LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Benthic community structure; Chironomidae; Chydoridae; Environmental regulation; Fluctuating ecosystem; Ostracoda; Paleolimnology; Redundancy analysis; Resource limitation; Salinity; Variation partitioning

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY RESPONSE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DEPTH; LONG-TERM CHANGE; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; SALINITY; SUBSTRATE;

KENYA;

CHIRONOMIDAE; CLADOCERA; DIPTERA; OSTRACODA;

EID: 0033980972     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2000)081[0164:EODSAS]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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