Relationship between macroinvertebrate fauna and environmental variables in small streams of the Dominican Republic

Water Research

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 863-874

  Soldner, Michael ^a   Stephen, Ian ^a   Ramos, Litay ^b   Angus, Robert ^a   Wells, N Claire ^a   Grosso, Albania ^c   Crane, Mark ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Museo Nacional de Historia Natural   (Dominican Republic)

^c ENVIRONMENT AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^d Crane Consultants   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biomonitoring; Dominican Republic; Macroinvertebrates

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CORRELATION METHODS; MICROBIOLOGY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RIVERS;

MACROINVERTEBRATE FAUNA;

WATER QUALITY;

BIOMONITORING; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; MACROINVERTEBRATE; WATER QUALITY;

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CALCULATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DOMINICAN REPUBLIC; FAUNA; MACROINVERTEBRATE; NONHUMAN; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREAM (RIVER); WATER QUALITY;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; DOMINICAN REPUBLIC; GREATER ANTILLES;

EPHEMEROPTERA; TRICHOPTERA;

EID: 0842346183     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0043-1354(03)00406-8     Document Type: Article

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