Dispersal limitation and climate-related environmental gradients structure microcrustacean composition in freshwater lakes, Ellesmere Island, Canada

Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Volumn 65, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1905-1918

  Strecker, Angela L ^a   Milne, Rebecca ^a   Arnott, Shelley E ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; CLIMATE EFFECT; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CRUSTACEAN; DISPERSAL; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; LAKE; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES RICHNESS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

CANADA; ELLESMERE ISLAND; NORTH AMERICA; NUNAVUT; QUEEN ELIZABETH ISLANDS;

DAPHNIA; DAPHNIA UMBRA; TACHIDIUS DISCIPES;

EID: 51849140408     PISSN: 0706652X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/F08-097     Document Type: Article

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