Sieve retention probabilities of stream benthic invertebrates

Journal of the North American Benthological Society

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 383-391

  Morin, Antoine ^a   Stephenson, Jaynie ^a   Strike, Jessica ^a   Solimini, Angelo G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Method; Retention; Sampling; Sieve; Size distribution

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; INVERTEBRATE; MESH SIZE; SAMPLING; SIEVING; STREAM;

ALGAE; ANNELIDA; CHIRONOMUS THUMMI; GASTROPODA; INVERTEBRATA; OLIGOCHAETA (METAZOA);

EID: 2942598161     PISSN: 08873593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1899/0887-3593(2004)023<0383:SRPOSB>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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