The importance of water-level fluctuation for the conservation of shallow water benthic macroinvertebrates: An example in the Andean zone of Chile

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 3095-3109

  Valdovinos, Claudio ^a,b   Moya, Carolina ^a   Olmos, Viviana ^a   Parra, Oscar ^a,b   Karrasch, Bernhard ^c   Buettner, Olaf ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN ECOSISTEMAS DE LA PATAGONIA CIEP   (Chile)

^c HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Benthic macroinvertebrates; Chile; Lake ecosystem; Water level fluctuations

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DISTURBANCE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; MACROINVERTEBRATE; POPULATION DENSITY; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES RICHNESS; WATER LEVEL;

ARAUCANIA; BIO-BIO; CHILE; ICALMA LAKE; LAGO LAJA; SOUTH AMERICA;

CHIRONOMIDAE; NAIDIDAE;

EID: 34548162378     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-007-9165-7     Document Type: Article

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