Large-scale effects of timber harvesting on stream systems in the Ouachita Mountains, Arkansas, USA

Environmental Management

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 76-87

  Williams, Lance R ^a,d   Taylor, Christopher M ^a   Warren Jr , Melvin L ^b   Clingenpeel, J Alan ^c  

^a MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^c USDA Forest Service Ouachita National Forest   (United States)

^d Louisiana College   (United States)

Author keywords

Drainage basin; Fishes; Macroinvertebrates; Ordination; Regional assemblages; Scale; Timber harvesting; Variance partitioning

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; HARVESTING; LOGGING (FORESTRY); TIMBER;

TIMBER HARVESTING;

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION;

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; FISH; MACROINVERTEBRATE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; STREAM; TIMBER HARVESTING;

ARTICLE; FISH; FOREST MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LOGGING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ORDINATION ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; SAMPLING; STREAM (RIVER); TAXONOMY; TIME; TROPHIC LEVEL; UNITED STATES; VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FORESTRY; INVERTEBRATE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; WATER FLOW; WATER POLLUTANT;

UNITED STATES;

CELLULAR ORGANISMS; PISCES;

ANIMAL; ARKANSAS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; FISHES; FORESTRY; INVERTEBRATES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS;

EID: 0036134214     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-001-0042-y     Document Type: Article

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