Environmental characteristics and benthic invertebrate assemblages in Colorado mountain lakes

Western North American Naturalist

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 137-154

  Lafrancois, Brenda Moraska ^a,b   Carlisle, Daren M ^a,c   Nydick, Koren R ^a,d   Johnson, Brett M ^a   Baron, Jill S ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b NATIONAL PARK SERVICE   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Benthic invertebrates; Biomonitoring; Canonical correspondence analysis (CCA); Mountain lakes; Sampling methodology; Taxonomic resolution; Water quality

Indexed keywords

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EID: 0038332117     PISSN: 15270904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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