Weak relationships between landscape characteristics and multiple facets of stream macroinvertebrate biodiversity in a boreal drainage basin

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 417-426

  Heino, Jani ^a   Mykrä, Heikki ^a   Kotanen, Juho ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b Finland's Environmental Administration   (Finland)

Author keywords

Aquatic insects; Boreal landscape; Functional diversity; Landscape scale patterns; Species diversity; Taxonomic distinctness

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIODIVERSITY; DIVERSITY INDEX; DRAINAGE BASIN; LAND USE; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; MACROINVERTEBRATE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES EVENNESS; SPECIES RICHNESS; STREAM; TAXONOMY;

HEXAPODA;

EID: 43349106265     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-008-9199-6     Document Type: Article

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