Ecological filters and variability in stream macroinvertebrate communities: Do taxonomic and functional structure follow the same path?

Ecography

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 217-230

  Heino, Jani ^a   Mykrä, Heikki ^a   Kotanen, Juho ^b   Muotka, Timo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b Finland's Environmental Administration   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; MACROINVERTEBRATE; STREAM; TAXONOMY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FINLAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 34247244260     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0906-7590.2007.04894.x     Document Type: Article

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