Spatial and temporal variation in aquatic macroinvertebrates in the Okefenokee Swamp, Georgia, USA

Wetlands

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 127-140

  Kratzer, Erika B ^a,b   Batzer, Darold P ^b  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Blackwater swamp; Community ecology; Invertebrates; Wetlands

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; MACROINVERTEBRATE; SPATIAL VARIATION; SWAMP; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

NORTH AMERICA; OKEFENOKEE SWAMP; UNITED STATES;

ACARI; ANISOPTERA (DRAGONFLIES); CERATOPOGONIDAE; CHIRONOMIDAE; COLEOPTERA; CUPRESSUS; DYTISCIDAE; HYDRACARINA; INVERTEBRATA; LIBELLULIDAE;

EID: 55949109628     PISSN: 02775212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1672/0277-5212(2007)27[127:SATVIA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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