Restoration effort, habitat mosaics, and macroinvertebrates - does channel form determine community composition?

Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 157-169

  Jähnig, Sonja C ^a   Lorenz, Armin W ^a   Hering, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aquatic habitat diversity; Benthic macroinvertebrates; Community traits; Re colonization; Scale; Spatial heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENT; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COLONIZATION; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; FEEDING; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT MOSAIC; HABITAT SELECTION; MACROINVERTEBRATE; PARTICULATE MATTER; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SUBSTRATE; TAXONOMY;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY;

EID: 61449197076     PISSN: 10527613     EISSN: 10990755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aqc.976     Document Type: Article

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