Altitudinal changes in diversity of macroinvertebrates from small streams in the Ecuadorian Andes

Archiv fur Hydrobiologie

Volumn 158, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 145-167

  Jacobsen, Dean ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Diversity indices; Elevation; Family richness; Macroinvertebrate assemblages; Spatial scale; Stone fauna

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDINAL ZONATION; ELEVATION; MACROINVERTEBRATE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STREAM;

ECUADOR; SOUTH AMERICA;

DIPTERA; EPHEMEROPTERA; HEMIPTERA; HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA; LEPIDOPTERA; MEGALOPTERA; ODONATA; RIPARIA; TRICHOPTERA;

EID: 0242411905     PISSN: 00039136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0003-9136/2003/0158-0145     Document Type: Article

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