Regional and local environmental factors structuring undisturbed benthic macroinvertebrate communities in the Mondego River basin, Portugal

Archiv fur Hydrobiologie

Volumn 163, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 497-523

  Chaves, M L ^a   Chainho, P M ^a   Costa, J L ^a   Prat, N ^b   Costa, M J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Abundance; Environmental gradients; Freshwater macroinvertebrates; Local factors; Mondego basin; Taxon richness

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; MACROINVERTEBRATE;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; PORTUGAL; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WORLD;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 24944454646     PISSN: 00039136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0003-9136/2005/0163-0497     Document Type: Article

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