Macroinvertebrate patterns along environmental gradients and hydrological connectivity within a regulated river-floodplain

Aquatic Sciences

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 248-258

  Gallardo, Belinda ^a   García, Mercedes ^a   Cabezas, Álvaro ^a   González, Eduardo ^a   González, María ^a   Ciancarelli, Cecilia ^a   Comín, Francisco A ^a  

^a INSTITUTO PIRENAICO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Canonical Correspondence Analysis; Ebro River; Macroinvertebrates; River floodplain system; Variance partitioning

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CANONICAL ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONNECTIVITY; CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EUTROPHICATION; FLOODPLAIN; MACROINVERTEBRATE; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; MODELING; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

EBRO RIVER; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

ATYAEPHYRA DESMARESTII; COENAGRION SCITULUM; CRUSTACEA; HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA; NAIDIDAE; PROCAMBARUS CLARKII; TRITHEMIS ANNULATA;

EID: 50649093092     PISSN: 10151621     EISSN: 14209055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00027-008-8024-2     Document Type: Article

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