What's in a site? Variation in lotic macroinvertebrate density and diversity in a spatially replicated experiment

Austral Ecology

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 128-139

  Downes, Barbara J ^a   Hindell, Jeremy S ^a   Bond, Nick R ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Rivers; Site selection; Spatial scale; Substrate texture

Indexed keywords

MACROINVERTEBRATE; POPULATION DENSITY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SUBSTRATE PREFERENCE; TEXTURE;

AUSTRALIA;

COLEOPTERA; SIMSONIA WILSONI;

EID: 0034024051     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1442-9993.2000.01019.x     Document Type: Article

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