Predicting the abundance of European stream macroinvertebrates using biological attributes

Oecologia

Volumn 156, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 65-73

  Statzner, Bernhard ^a   Bonada, Núria ^b   Dolédec, Sylvain ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Biological traits; Modelling; Specialization; Species richness; Taxonomic effects

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ASSESSMENT METHOD; BODY SIZE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FOOD AVAILABILITY; MACROINVERTEBRATE; PREDICTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; STREAM; VIABILITY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BODY SIZE; EUROPE; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FORECASTING; HISTOLOGY; INVERTEBRATE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; RIVER;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BODY SIZE; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EUROPE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FORECASTING; INVERTEBRATES; POPULATION DENSITY; RIVERS;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 42149122753     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-008-0972-7     Document Type: Article

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