Spatial and temporal patterns of benthic invertebrate communities in an intermittent river (North Africa)

Annales de Limnologie

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 317-327

  Arab, A ^a   Lek, S ^b   Lounaci, A ^c   Park, Y S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY HOUARI BOUMEDIENE   (Algeria)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ MOULOUD MAMMERI   (Algeria)

Author keywords

Artificial neural network; Intermittent stream; Macroinvertebrates; North Africa; Self organizing map; Species richness

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; MACROINVERTEBRATE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES RICHNESS; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION;

AFRICA; ALGERIA; CHELIF BASIN; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; NORTH AFRICA; WORLD;

CHIRONOMIDAE; COLEOPTERA; DIPTERA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 11144234364     PISSN: 00034088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/limn/2004029     Document Type: Article

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