Biological traits of benthic macroinvertebrates in California mediterranean-climate streams: Long-term annual variability and trait diversity patterns

Fundamental and Applied Limnology

Volumn 169, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-23

  Bêche, Leah A ^a,b,c   Resh, Vincent H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

Drought; Long term data; Persistence; Stability; Streams; Temporal variation

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; BENTHOS; DROUGHT; MACROINVERTEBRATE; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; PERSISTENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STREAM; TAXONOMY; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 34848812546     PISSN: 18639135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/1863-9135/2007/0169-0001     Document Type: Article

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