Taxonomic diversity and biogeography of Chironomidae (Insecta: Diptera) in lakes of tropical West Africa using subfossil remains extracted from surface sediments

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1063-1083

  Eggermont, Hilde ^a   Verschuren, Dirk ^a   Dumont, Henri ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Aquatic biodiversity; Biogeography; Chironomidae; Lake zoobenthos; Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction; Subfossil morphotypes; Taxonomy; Tropical Africa

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SUBFOSSIL; ZOOBENTHOS;

AFRICA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

CHIRONOMIDAE; CHIRONOMINAE; CHIRONOMINI; DIPTERA; INSECTA; ORTHOCLADIINAE; TANYPODINAE; TANYTARSINI;

EID: 20044367643     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2005.01242.x     Document Type: Article

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