The effect of riffle-scale environmental variability on macroinvertebrate assemblages in a tropical stream

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 524, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 125-132

  Boyero, Luz ^a   Bosch, Jaime ^a  

^a MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

Author keywords

Panama; quantification; riffles; spatial heterogeneity; stones; tropics

Indexed keywords

MACROINVERTEBRATE ASSEMBLAGES; RIFFLE-SCALE ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABILITY;

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; STREAM FLOW;

HYDROLOGY;

ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HETEROGENEITY; MACROINVERTEBRATE; STREAM;

CENTRAL AMERICA; PANAMA [CENTRAL AMERICA]; SOBERANIA NATIONAL PARK;

EID: 3943100058     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:HYDR.0000036127.94781.3c     Document Type: Article

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