Species richness, abundance, and body size relationships from a neotropical chironomid assemblage: Looking for patterns

Basic and Applied Ecology

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 606-612

  Siqueira, Tadeu ^a   de Oliveira Roque, Fabio ^b   Trivinho Strixino, Susana ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO CARLOS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Aquatic insects; Chironomidae; Forested streams; Macroecology; Temporal variation

Indexed keywords

CHIRONOMIDAE; HEXAPODA;

EID: 47049096791     PISSN: 14391791     EISSN: 16180089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2007.06.002     Document Type: Article

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