Relationships between length and weight of freshwater macroinvertebrates in Japan

Limnology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 75-80

  Miyasaka, Hitoshi ^a   Genkai Kato, Motomi ^b   Miyake, Yo ^c   Kishi, Daisuke ^d   Katano, Izumi ^e   Doi, Hideyuki ^c   Ohba, Shin Ya ^f   Kuhara, Naotoshi ^g  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Gifu Prefectural Research Institute for Freshwater Fish and Aquatic Environments   (Japan)

^e Aqua Restoration Research Center   (Japan)

^f OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g Chitose Board of Education   (Japan)

Author keywords

Body length; Freshwater macroinvertebrates; Head capsule width; Stream; Weight

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; LENGTH-WEIGHT RELATIONSHIP; MACROINVERTEBRATE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TAXONOMY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 41549105259     PISSN: 14398621     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10201-008-0238-4     Document Type: Article

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