Long-term reactions of plants and macroinvertebrates to extreme floods in floodplain grasslands

Ecology

Volumn 89, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2392-2398

  Ilg, Christiane ^a   Dziock, Frank ^b   Foeckler, Francis ^c   Follner, Klaus ^a   Gerisch, Michael ^a   Glaeser, Judith ^a   Rink, Anke ^d   Schanowski, Arno ^e   Scholz, Mathias ^a   Deichner, Oskar ^c   Henle, Klaus ^a  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c Association for Landscape Ecology Limnology and Environmental Planning   (Germany)

^d FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF HYDROLOGY   (Germany)

^e Institute for Landscape Ecology and Nature Conservation in Buehl (ILN)   (Germany)

Author keywords

Carabid beetles; Extreme event; Flood; Floodplain; Grassland; Mollusks; Resilience; Resistance; River Elbe; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; FLOOD; FLOODPLAIN; GRASSLAND; MACROINVERTEBRATE; SUMMER; SURVIVAL;

CENTRAL EUROPE; ELBE RIVER; EURASIA; EUROPE;

CARABIDAE; COLEOPTERA; MOLLUSCA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEETLE; DISASTER; ECOSYSTEM; GERMANY; METABOLISM; MOLLUSC; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; POACEAE; TIME;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; ECOSYSTEM; GERMANY; MOLLUSCA; NATURAL DISASTERS; PLANTS; POACEAE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 54549093905     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/08-0528.1     Document Type: Article

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