Macroinvertebrate assemblages in 25 high alpine ponds of the Swiss National Park (Cirque of Macun) and relation to environmental variables

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 597, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 29-41

  Oertli, Beat ^a   Indermuehle, Nicola ^a   Angélibert, Sandrine ^a   Hinden, Hélène ^b   Stoll, Aurélien ^a  

^a University of Applied Sciences and Art Western Switzerland   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Biomonitoring; Small waterbodies; Swiss Alps; Zoobenthos

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; GLOBAL WARMING; LIVING SYSTEMS STUDIES; PONDING;

CLIMATE WARMING; ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLES; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMONITORING; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONNECTIVITY; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GLOBAL CHANGE; MACROINVERTEBRATE; POND; SPECIES INVENTORY; SPECIES RICHNESS; ZOOBENTHOS;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GRAUBUNDEN; SWISS NATIONAL PARK; SWITZERLAND;

ANNELIDA; CHIRONOMIDAE; COLEOPTERA; DIPTERA; EPHEMEROPTERA; GASTROPODA; HETEROPTERA; ODONATA; OLIGOCHAETA (METAZOA); TRICHOPTERA;

EID: 37549000509     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-007-9218-7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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