Linkages between nutrients and assemblages of macroinvertebrates and fish in wadeable streams: Implication to nutrient criteria development

Environmental Management

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 194-212

  Wang, Lizhu ^a   Robertson, Dale M ^b   Garrison, Paul J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Disturbance; Nutrient criteria; Nutrient ecoregion; Nutrient fish relation; Nutrient macroinvertebrate relation; Threshold

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); CORRELATION METHODS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FISHERIES;

DISTURBANCE; NUTRIENT CRITERIA; NUTRIENT ECOREGION; NUTRIENT-FISH RELATION; NUTRIENT-MACROINVERTEBRATE RELATION; THRESHOLD;

STREAM FLOW;

ABUNDANCE; DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; INDEX OF BIOTIC INTEGRITY; INSECT; MACROINVERTEBRATE; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; PHOSPHORUS; SALMONID;

ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENT; EVALUATION; MACROINVERTEBRATE; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; WATER QUALITY;

ANIMALS; FISHES; FOOD; FRESH WATER; INVERTEBRATES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WISCONSIN;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN; WISCONSIN RIVER;

EPHEMEROPTERA; PISCES; PLECOPTERA; SALMONIDAE; TRICHOPTERA;

EID: 33845769985     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-006-0135-8     Document Type: Article

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