Temporal persistence of benthic invertebrate communities in south-eastern Australian streams: Taxonomic resolution and implications for the use of predictive models

Marine and Freshwater Research

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 1223-1234

  Metzeling, Leon ^a   Robinson, David ^a   Perriss, Stephen ^a   Marchant, Richard ^b  

^a EWATER COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

^b MUSEUM VICTORIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ECOSYSTEM HEALTH; PERSISTENCE; ZOOBENTHOS;

AUSTRALIA;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036998563     PISSN: 13231650     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/MF02071     Document Type: Article

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