Substrate specificity, environmental degradation and disturbance structuring macroinvertebrate assemblages in neotropical streams

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 518, Issue 1-3, 2004, Pages 179-188

  Buss, Daniel F ^a   Baptista, Darcílio F ^a   Nessimian, Jorge L ^b   Egler, Mariana ^a  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Assemblage structure; Benthic macroinvertebrates; Brazil; Disturbance; Neotropical stream

Indexed keywords

BIODEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; HYDROLOGY; RAIN; RANDOM PROCESSES; SAMPLING; WATER QUALITY;

ENVIRONMENTAL INTEGRITY; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

MARINE BIOLOGY;

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; MACROINVERTEBRATE; STREAM; SUBSTRATE;

BRAZIL; SOUTH AMERICA;

RIPARIA;

EID: 3442876791     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:HYDR.0000025067.66126.1c     Document Type: Article

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