Length-mass models for some common New Zealand littoral-benthic macroinvertebrates, with a note on within-taxon variability in parameter values among published models

New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 449-460

  Stoffels, Rick J ^a   Karbe, Stefanie ^b   Paterson, Rachel A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b Fachhochschule Eberswalde   (Germany)

Author keywords

Benthic macroinvertebrates; Biomass; Dry mass; Length mass conversion; Length mass regressions; Littoral zone; Secondary production

Indexed keywords

LAKE ECOSYSTEM; LENGTH-WEIGHT RELATIONSHIP; MACROINVERTEBRATE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SECONDARY PRODUCTION;

NEW ZEALAND;

CHIRONOMIDAE; INSECTA;

EID: 0142091414     PISSN: 00288330     EISSN: 11758805     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00288330.2003.9517179     Document Type: Article

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