Spatial distribution of benthic algae in the Gangqu River, Shangrila, China

Aquatic Ecology

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 37-49

  Wu, Naicheng ^a,b   Tang, Tao ^a   Qu, Xiaodong ^c   Cai, Qinghua ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c Pusan National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Canonical correspondence analysis (CCA); Environmental variables; Indicator value (IndVal); Multi response permutation procedure (MRPP); Non metric multidimensional scaling (NMS); Weighted averaging (WA)

Indexed keywords

ALGA; BASELINE CONDITIONS; CANONICAL ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RIVER SYSTEM; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TRIBUTARY;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; GANGQU RIVER; YUNNAN;

ALGAE; COCCONEIS PLACENTULA; CYMBELLA ALPINA; ENCYONEMA SILESIACUM; FRAGILARIFORMA VIRESCENS; PLANOTHIDIUM LANCEOLATUM; ROSSITHIDIUM LINEARIS;

EID: 59849121328     PISSN: 13862588     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10452-007-9153-8     Document Type: Article

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