Stream communities across a rural-urban landscape gradient

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 337-350

  Urban, Mark C ^a   Skelly, David K ^a,b   Burchsted, Denise ^a   Price, William ^a   Lowry, Sarah ^a  

^a Yale School of the Environment   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Community assembly; Fragmentation; Metapopulation; Spatial scale; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE ESTIMATION; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; INSTREAM FLOW; INVERTEBRATE; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; PATCH DYNAMICS; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; RIPARIAN VEGETATION; RURAL AREA; SPATIAL VARIATION; STREAMFLOW; URBAN AREA; URBANIZATION; WATERSHED;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 33745727198     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1366-9516.2005.00226.x     Document Type: Article

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