Long-term trends in benthic macroinvertebrate populations in Lake Huron over the past four decades

Journal of Great Lakes Research

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 421-436

  Nalepa, Thomas F ^a   Fanslow, David L ^a   Pothoven, Steven A ^a   Foley III, Andrew J ^b   Lang, Gregory A ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Density changes; Diporeia; Georgian Bay; North Channel; Zoobenthos

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DATA ACQUISITION; DENSITY OF LIQUIDS; LAKES; NUTRIENTS; PHOSPHORUS;

BENTHIC MACROINVERTEBRATE; GEORGIAN BAY; LAKE HURON; NORTH CHANNEL; PHOSPHORUS LOADS; ZOOBENTHOS;

ECOSYSTEMS;

BENTHOS; BIVALVE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; MACROINVERTEBRATE; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION STRUCTURE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CANADA; GEORGIAN BAY; GREAT LAKES; IRISH SEA; LAKE HURON; NORTH AMERICA; NORTH CHANNEL; ONTARIO [CANADA];

ANNELIDA; CHIRONOMIDAE; DIPOREIA; DREISSENA; DREISSENA BUGENSIS; DREISSENA POLYMORPHA; OLIGOCHAETA (METAZOA);

EID: 34547096508     PISSN: 03801330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3394/0380-1330(2007)33[421:LTIBMP]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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