Macrobenthic invertebrate richness and composition along a latitudinal gradient of European glacier-fed streams

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 46, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 1811-1831

  Castella, Emmanuel ^a   Adalsteinsson, Hákon ^b   Brittain, John E ^c   Gislason, Gisli M ^d   Lehmann, Anthony ^a   Lencioni, Valeria ^e   Lods Crozet, Brigitte ^a   Maiolini, Bruno ^e   Milner, Alexander M ^f   Olafsson, Jon S ^d   Saltveit, Svein J ^c   Snook, Deborah L ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b National Energy Authority Reykjavik   (Iceland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^e MUSEO TRIDENTINO DI SCIENZE NATURALI   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alpine; Arctic; Climate change; Generalized additive models; Glacial stream; Macrobenthos

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; MACROBENTHOS; SPECIES RICHNESS;

CHIRONOMIDAE; DIPTERA; HEPTAGENIIDAE; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; TIPULIDAE;

EID: 0035671736     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2427.2001.00860.x     Document Type: Article

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