Invertebrate responses to decreasing water levels in a subtropical river floodplain wetland

Wetlands

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 583-593

  Tronstad, Lusha M ^a,b   Tronstad, Bryan P ^a   Benke, Arthur C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Adult emergence; Chironomidae; Desiccation avoidance; Hydrology; Invertebrate movement; Water level fluctuation

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL PLAIN; FLOODPLAIN; INVERTEBRATE; WATER LEVEL; WETLAND;

ALABAMA; NORTH AMERICA; SIPSEY RIVER; UNITED STATES;

ACARI; ANNELIDA; CHIRONOMIDAE; COPEPODA; DIPLURA (HEXAPODS); HEXAPODA; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; NEMATODA; OLIGOCHAETA (METAZOA); OSTRACODA; PROTURA; SCIARIDAE; STRATIOMYIDAE; TENEBRIONIDAE;

EID: 33749488911     PISSN: 02775212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1672/0277-5212(2005)025[0583:IRTDWL]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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