Spatial patterns in pond invertebrate communities: Separating environmental and distance effects

Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 549-557

  Briers, Robert A ^a   Biggs, Jeremy ^b  

^a EDINBURGH NAPIER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Community composition; Conservation; Dispersal; Landscape; Macroinvertebrates; Spatial autocorrelation

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DISPERSAL; HABITAT CONSERVATION; MACROINVERTEBRATE; POND; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; OXFORDSHIRE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 28144455676     PISSN: 10527613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aqc.742     Document Type: Conference Paper

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