Functional trait niches of North American lotic insects: Traits-based ecological applications in light of phylogenetic relationships

Journal of the North American Benthological Society

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 730-755

  Poff, N LeRoy ^a   Olden, Julian D ^a,b   Vieira, Nicole K M ^a,c   Finn, Debra S ^a,d   Simmons, Mark P ^a   Kondratieff, Boris C ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c Colorado Division of Wildlife ^*  (United States)

^d OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomonitoring; Environmental filters; Environmental gradients; Functional diversity; Functional trait niche; Phylogenetic analysis; Predictive community ecology; Species traits; Trait correlations

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; EVOLUTION; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; INSECT; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; LOTIC ENVIRONMENT; MOBILITY; PHYLOGENETICS; STREAM;

NORTH AMERICA;

EPHEMEROPTERA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; PLECOPTERA; TRICHOPTERA;

EID: 33845314747     PISSN: 08873593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1899/0887-3593(2006)025[0730:FTNONA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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