Effect of sampling different habitat types in regional macroinvertebrate bioassessment surveys

Journal of the North American Benthological Society

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 501-512

  Gerth, William J ^a   Herlihy, Alan T ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioassessment; EMAP; Invertebrate assemblages; Mid Atlantic; Ordination; Richness; Sample habitat; Similarity measures; United States

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BIOMONITORING; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; HABITAT TYPE; MACROINVERTEBRATE; SAMPLING; SIMILARITY INDEX; SPECIES RICHNESS;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EPHEMEROPTERA; INVERTEBRATA; PLECOPTERA; TRICHOPTERA;

EID: 33744809286     PISSN: 08873593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1899/0887-3593(2006)25[501:EOSDHT]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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