Spatial and environmental effects on hydrophytic macrophyte occurrence in the Upper Rhine floodplain (Germany)

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 586, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 167-177

  Tremp, Horst ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Autocorrelation; Hydrophytic freshwater plants; Redundancy analysis; Rhine floodplain; Spatial analysis; Species turnover

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; DATA STRUCTURES; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; REDUNDANCY; RIVERS; TURBIDITY;

HYDROPHYTIC FRESHWATER PLANTS; REDUNDANCY ANALYSIS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES TURNOVER;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

AQUATIC PLANT; AUTOCORRELATION; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; FLOODPLAIN; MACROPHYTE; MAPPING; NICHE OVERLAP; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; RHINE BASIN;

EID: 34249066502     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-007-0617-6     Document Type: Article

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