Responses of taxonomic distinctness and species diversity indices to anthropogenic impacts and natural environmental gradients in stream macroinvertebrates

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1846-1861

  Heino, Jani ^a   Mykrä, Heikki ^a   Hämäläinen, Heikki ^b   Aroviita, Jukka ^b   Muotka, Timo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic perturbation; Riverine macroinvertebrates; Species diversity; Streams; Taxonomic distinctness

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547793532     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2007.01801.x     Document Type: Article

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