Ecology of leaf pack macroinvertebrate communities in streams of the Fraser River Basin, British Columbia

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1094-1104

  Sylvestre, Stephanie ^a   Bailey, Robert C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fraser River Basin; Invertebrate communities; Leaf packs

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; MACROINVERTEBRATE;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; FRASER VALLEY; NORTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

BAETIS; CAPNIA; CHIRONOMUS THUMMI; EPHEMERELLA; EPHEMEROPTERA; INVERTEBRATA; PLECOPTERA; ZAPADA;

EID: 19744364041     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2005.01373.x     Document Type: Article

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