Using macroinvertebrates to identify biota-land cover optima at multiple scales in the Pacific Northwest, USA

Journal of the North American Benthological Society

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 340-362

  Black, Robert W ^a   Munn, Mark D ^a   Plotnikoff, Robert W ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON STATE DEPARTMENT OF ECOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological monitoring; Environmental gradients; Environmental scale; Land cover optima; Land use; Macroinvertebrates

Indexed keywords

BIOMONITORING; BIOTA; CANONICAL ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; LAND COVER; LAND USE; MACROINVERTEBRATE; WATERSHED;

NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC NORTHWEST;

CELLULAR ORGANISMS;

EID: 2942536491     PISSN: 08873593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1899/0887-3593(2004)023<0340:UMTIBC>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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