How wide to cast the net? Cross-taxon congruence of species richness, community similarity and indicator taxa in ponds

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 578-590

  Bilton, David T ^a   Mcabendroth, Louise ^a   Bedford, Alan ^b   Ramsay, Paul M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b EDGE HILL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biodiversity assessment; Indicator taxa; Macroinvertebrates; Pond community

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BIODIVERSITY; BIOINDICATOR; POND; SPECIES RICHNESS;

CHIRONOMIDAE; COLEOPTERA; GASTROPODA; INVERTEBRATA; TRICHOPTERA;

EID: 33645093425     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2006.01505.x     Document Type: Article

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