Low oxygen pressure as a driving factor for the altitudinal decline in taxon richness of stream macroinvertebrates

Oecologia

Volumn 154, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 795-807

  Jacobsen, Dean ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DEL ECUADOR   (Ecuador)

Author keywords

Aquatic fauna; Diversity patterns; Elevation; Freshwater; Oxygen availability

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ALTITUDINAL ZONATION; BENTHOS; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; MACROINVERTEBRATE; OXYGEN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIES RICHNESS; STREAM; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ALTITUDE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; ECUADOR; INVERTEBRATE; RIVER; TEMPERATURE;

ALTITUDE; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; ECUADOR; INVERTEBRATES; OXYGEN; RIVERS; TEMPERATURE;

ECUADOR; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 36849085878     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-007-0877-x     Document Type: Article

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