Seasonal variation in species composition and larval size of the Benthic Chironomid communities in brackish wetlands in Southern Alicante, Spain

Wetlands

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 289-296

  Fuentes, Cristina ^a,b   Green, Andy J ^a   Orr, Jane ^a,d   Ólafsson, Jón S ^c  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^d Nicholas Pearson Associates   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Benthic larvae; Chironomidae; Chironomus; Procladius; Seasonal variation; Size distribution; Tanytarsus

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CORE ANALYSIS; FLY; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; SEASONAL VARIATION; WETLAND;

ALICANTE [COMUNIDAD VALENCIA]; COMUNIDAD VALENCIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

CHIRONOMIDAE; CHIRONOMUS APRILINUS; CHIRONOMUS SALINARIUS; PROCLADIUS; TANYTARSUS;

EID: 33749524553     PISSN: 02775212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1672/5     Document Type: Article

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