Assessing physical surrogates for biodiversity: Do tributary and stream type classifications reflect macroinvertebrate assemblage diversity in running waters?

Biological Conservation

Volumn 129, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 418-426

  Heino, Jani ^a   Mykrä, Heikki ^b,c  

^a FINNISH ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

Assemblage structure; Biodiversity surrogates; Conservation planning; Landscape classifications; Macroinvertebrates; Streams

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONSERVATION PLANNING; MACROINVERTEBRATE; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 33644533191     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2005.11.009     Document Type: Article

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