How common are rare taxa in long-term benthic macroinvertebrate surveys?

Journal of the North American Benthological Society

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 976-989

  Resh, Vincent H ^a   Bêche, Leah A ^a   McElravy, Eric P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological traits; California; Mediterranean; Seasonal; Stream; Survey; Unresolved taxa

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; BIOLOGICAL SURVEY; BIOMONITORING; MACROINVERTEBRATE; RARE SPECIES;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 28844466392     PISSN: 08873593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1899/05-026.1     Document Type: Review

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