Development and use of a zooplankton index of wetland quality in the Laurentian Great Lakes Basin

Ecological Applications

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 474-486

  Lougheed, Vanessa L ^a,b   Chow Fraser, Patricia ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomonitoring index; Laurentian Great Lakes basin; Partial canonical correspondence analysis (pCCA); Restoration; Wetland zooplankton index (WZI); Wetlands; Zooplankton

Indexed keywords

HABITAT QUALITY; INDEX METHOD; MONITORING; WETLAND; ZOOPLANKTON;

LAURENTIAN GREAT LAKES; UNITED STATES;

BRACHIONUS; CHYDORIDAE; CYPRINUS CARPIO; LAURENTIA; MACROTRICHIDAE; MOINA;

EID: 0036557546     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(2002)012[0474:DAUOAZ]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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