Associations among spring-dependent aquatic assemblages and environmental and land use gradients in a Mojave Desert mountain range

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 91-99

  Sada, Donald W ^a   Fleishman, Erica ^b   Murphy, Dennis D ^c  

^a DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aquatic invertebrates; Conservation; Disturbance; Invasive species; Nestedness; Spring Mountains

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONSERVATION PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; LAND USE; SEASONALITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

MOJAVE DESERT; NEVADA; NORTH AMERICA; SPRING MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

INVERTEBRATA; RIPARIA;

EID: 13444265165     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1366-9516.2005.00131.x     Document Type: Article

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