Use of both benthic and drift sampling techniques to assess tropical stream invertebrate communities along an altitudinal gradient, Costa Rica

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 359-373

  Pringle, Catherine M ^a   Ramírez, Alonso ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDINAL GRADIENT; INVERTEBRATE DRIFT; MACROINVERTEBRATE; SAMPLING TECHNIQUE; STREAM;

COSTA RICA;

CHIRONOMIDAE; DECAPODA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); DIPTERA; EPHEMEROPTERA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; MUSA; PISCES;

EID: 2642639612     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2427.1998.00311.x     Document Type: Article

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