Algal communities in human-impacted stream ecosystems suffer beta-diversity decline

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 670-679

  Passy, Sophia I ^a   Blanchet, F Guillaume ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Algae; Big Hollow Project; Biodiversity; Biomonitoring; Diatoms; Dispersal; New York City Watershed; Periphyton; Species area relationships; Stream restoration

Indexed keywords

ALGA; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; DEGRADATION; ECOSYSTEM HEALTH; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; PERIPHYTON; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP; STREAM;

BATAVIA KILL; NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ALGAE; BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 34250678767     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2007.00361.x     Document Type: Article

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