Structural complexity of woody debris patches influences fish and macroinvertebrate species richness in a temperate floodplain-river system

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 610, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 235-244

  Schneider, Kristal N ^a,b   Winemiller, Kirk O ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Benthic; Flow; Habitat heterogeneity; Lentic; Lotic; Oxbow lake; Species assemblage

Indexed keywords

CANNING; COMPUTER NETWORKS; EXPERIMENTS; FISH; FOOD PRESERVATION; OCEAN HABITATS; WATER CONSERVATION;

(ALGORITHMIC) COMPLEXITY; AQUATIC INSECTS; ASSEMBLAGE STRUCTURE; BUSINESS MEDIA; CENTRAL TEXAS; FIELD EXPERIMENTS; FLOOD PLAINS; INSECT LARVAE; LITTORAL ZONES; LOWLAND RIVERS; MACRO INVERTEBRATES; MACRO-INVERTEBRATES; OPPOSITE TREND; RESOURCE AVAILABILITIES; RIVER CHANNELS; RIVER SYSTEMS; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPRINGER (CO); STRUCTURAL COMPLEXITY; TAXONOMIC RICHNESS; VARIABLE DENSITY; VERTICAL SURFACES; WATER CURRENTS; WOODY DEBRIS (WD);

BIODIVERSITY;

ABUNDANCE; COMPLEXITY; CYPRINID; FLOODPLAIN; FOOD AVAILABILITY; HABITAT SELECTION; HETEROGENEITY; LENTIC ENVIRONMENT; LOTIC ENVIRONMENT; MACROINVERTEBRATE; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATION; REFUGE; RIVER CHANNEL; RIVER SYSTEM; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY; WOODY DEBRIS;

BRAZOS RIVER; NORTH AMERICA; OXBOW LAKE; TEXAS; UNITED STATES; VIRGINIA;

ARTHROPODA; CHIRONOMIDAE; CYPRINIDAE; HEXAPODA; PISCES; TRICHOPTERA;

EID: 46749107460     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-008-9438-5     Document Type: Article

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