Hydrological connectivity drives patterns of macroinvertebrate biodiversity in floodplain rivers of the Australian wet/dry tropics

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 549-571

  Leigh, Catherine ^a   Sheldon, Fran ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Beta diversity; Dryland rivers; Functional feeding groups; Multiple scales; Spatiotemporal variation

Indexed keywords

INSECTA;

EID: 60349091236     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2008.02130.x     Document Type: Article

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