Seasonal flow variation allows 'time-sharing' by disparate aquatic insect communities in montane desert streams

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 290-304

  Bogan, Michael T ^a,b,c   Lytle, David A ^b  

^a Box 198 ^*  (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Community composition; Functional feeding groups; Macroinvertebrates; Multivariate analyses; Seasonal variation

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC COMMUNITY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DESERT; FLOW PATTERN; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; HABITAT STRUCTURE; INSECT; MOUNTAIN STREAM; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REFUGE; SEASONAL VARIATION; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ARIZONA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

COLEOPTERA; HEMIPTERA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA;

EID: 33846197885     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2006.01691.x     Document Type: Article

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