Recruitment of Hexagenia mayfly nymphs in western Lake Erie linked to environmental variability

Ecological Applications

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 601-611

  Bridgeman, Thomas B ^a   Schloesser, Don W ^b   Krause, Ann E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Benthos; Dead zone; Eutrophication; Hexagenia; Hypoxia; Lake Erie; Laurentian Great Lakes; Mayfly; Oxygen; Recruitment; Stratification

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER; OXYGEN;

COLONIZATION; FISHERY; FOOD; HYPOXIA; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; MAYFLY; RECRUITMENT; STRATIFICATION; WATER QUALITY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; INSECT; NYMPH; POPULATION DENSITY; TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES; WIND;

ANIMALS; FRESH WATER; GREAT LAKES REGION; INSECTS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NYMPH; OXYGEN; POPULATION DENSITY; TEMPERATURE; WIND;

GREAT LAKES; LAKE ERIE; NORTH AMERICA;

ARTHROPODA; EPHEMEROPTERA; HEXAGENIA; PERCA FLAVESCENS; SCAPPHODONTA;

EID: 33646138254     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: 10510761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(2006)016[0601:ROHMNI]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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