Salt cedar negatively affects biodiversity of aquatic macroinvertebrates

Wetlands

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 442-447

  Bailey, J K ^a   Schweitzer, J A ^a   Whitham, T G ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Community; Cottonwood; Exotic species; Leaf litter decomposition; Leaf packs; Populus; Riparian ecology; Tamarix

Indexed keywords

DECOMPOSITION; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; INTRODUCED SPECIES; INVERTEBRATE; RIPARIAN ZONE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; WETLAND;

ARIZONA; UNITED STATES; WET BEAVER CREEK;

POPULUS FREMONTII; TAMARIX RAMOSISSIMA;

EID: 0034799427     PISSN: 02775212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1672/0277-5212(2001)021[0442:SCNABO]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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