Across-reach consistency in macroinvertebrate distributions among litter patch types in Japanese headwater streams

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 543, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 135-145

  Kobayashi, Sohei ^a,b   Kagaya, Takashi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Accumulating litter; Assemblage structure; Channel characteristics; Hydraulics; Patch type composition; Pool riffle

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; HYDRAULICS; WATER RESOURCES; WOOD;

HEADWATER STREAMS; LITTER PATCHES; MACROINVERTEBRATE DISTRIBUTIONS; WATER DEPTH;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; LITTER; MACROINVERTEBRATE; PATCH USE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STREAM;

FOREST LITTER; HYDRAULICS; LEAVES; PLANTS; WOOD;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN; WORLD;

EID: 21244446626     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-004-6951-z     Document Type: Article

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